Hanoi Orchid Hotel

... actually be there. However now we were about to find out, as we had pulled up outside the shop front of our hotel. Suddenly,a smallish looking Asian man with a wispy shredded beard, came out to grab our luggage and then commenced to carry it up to our room, which was located on the second floor of an old, but nicely renovated terrace building. We checked in at the front desk behind which sat a pretty receptionist and her male ...

... zu bekommen ;)
Eigentlich haetten wir 24 Std. unterwegs sein sollen.... am Ende waren es aber gute 31^^
Es macht absolut keinen Spass im sitzen zu schlafen.... und waehrenddessen verdammtlaute Karaokemusik zu hoeren!!

In Hanoi angekommen merkten wir schnell, dass das ruhige und gechillte Leben, so wie wir es aus Vang Vieng kannten, zu Ende war! Permanentes gehupe... smog ...

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... Minh) but he has been sent to Russia for his yearly embalming. They love him & talk about him & have posters everywhere of him. We looked around the beautiful grounds and simple homes where he lived .



Got our cyclo to drive past the the beautiful French opera house & then to Hoan Kiem Lake which is near the Old Quarter.

Hanoi, Vietnam hilaryramsey

... definetly has a French influence with the buildings, fountains, food, and an actual Arc de Triumph. 5 p.m. rolled around and I headed to the bus station.
THE BUS RIDE.
So we left the station around 7 p.m. and we were on our way to Vietnam. There was about 6 foreigners aboard, the rest locals. I won't bore anyone with the details of the characters on board, but lets just say there were two pukers, snorers, and maybe a 17 ...

... crossing the road really is like that. Just look ahead, step out, walk slowly and pray. It took Katie a bit of pursuading, but she got the hang of it in the end. Some nice chilled beers by the lake in the evening counteracted the crazyness of it, and we even joined the locals and did a bit of early evening power walking ...

... is similar to the kind of
“banh te” (rice cake). This flour is continously dissolved in water
when being cooked. After 45 minutes, the flour turns pure white and
viscid, which means it is well-cooked. Then the flour is placed o*n
phrynium leaf and wrapped with meat. These rice dumplings are then put
into the boiling water for 20 minutes. After that, pyramidal rice
Hanoi, Vietnam michaeltonny

... bin ich dann los die Altstadtanschauen und meine restlichen 7 Postkarten schreiben, als ich dann in der Postoffice 21 Briefmarken gekauft hab (bzw 42 8000 und 2000 Dong) und dann angefangen hab die auf meine Postkarten zu kleben, eine Zunge so trocken wie ein Eimer Sand hatte haette ihr mal das Gesicht von der Kassiererin sehensollen..:)) . Am Abend bin ich dann noch mit den drednern was essen gegangen und n paar Bierchen ...

... jet legged - huge FML. Walked around and bought Lacoste sunglasses. I also feel really tall here.. haha. And I've got a scary tan on the very first day here. The first thing we ate was pho; it costed about $1.50 and tasted ten times better than Chinatown. hehehe. Going to sleep early tonight.. gonna wake up and go to Ha Long Bay at 8am and stay overnight.

... Phuc Kabobs. Inappropriate, Yes! Funny, Yes! Anyway, didnt sleep much last night due to an assortment of a problematic new older roommate who didnt want the fan on, and a bunch of drunken kids coming in at 5 in the morning and making a ton of noise. Sean and I headed out early this morning to go and see Ho Chi Mihn's Mausoleum. It ook us a while to figure out how to get there because half of the roads are blocked, because ...