Platinum II Hotel Hanoi

... road was also quite dusty. We were told the "market" was further down the road so we left the bike and went on foot to the market area. I poked my head into nearly every little shop excited to finally be here and quickly realized that Bat Trang was much like Hanoi - many shops but much of the same as the shop next to it. Occasionally I saw some variety but mostly the same stuff. After a few wrong turns, which made for some fun nosing around, we made it ...

... Vietnam ins Kittchen das is Fix!!
Aber sehr beindruckent da der konservirte Leichnam ja zu sehen ist.

Mit vielen neuen positiven einduecken von Asien gehts jetzt ins Bett da morgen um Sechs Tagwache ist dann gehts ab in den Norden

Bitte nicht ueber Rechtschreibfehler lachen die Asiatischen Tastaturen sind irgendwie undurchschaubar.

Bis bald Anja und Christian

Aja Fotos kommen noch

... mercifully cool climate, become a land of many kinds of vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, red beet……Tourists will have chance to taste traditional dishes and specialities as salmon hot pot, grilled pork on live coal that bring forest favor in it. It likely seems to be too long if talking about Sapa, land with many wonders. Make a trip to discover this wonderful land that you have ever never known.
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... day.

After work I was invited over for dinner to the "guys villa". This is a company owned villa that four teachers live in. Each has their own room but share the rest of the house, kind of fraternity-esque.
The funny thing was that as I was walking up to their house I heard someone holler "Hey Mr. Mark". Over here teachers are referred to by their first name with Mr or Ms added to the front. So anyway here was one of the 3rd graders running up to me that I'd had ...

... us). It was a nice change from mixing exclusively with other travelers and afforded us a bit more insight into the Vietnamese people. (When we could understand them)


She owned the beetle

The nightlife in Hanoi was strange. It would go from the busiest place on earth to a ghost town in the space of twenty minutes. Some sort of ...

... Cốm" making is.







R 20;Not every one can dry and pound "Cốm". It is a closely guarded secret
in some families that is never revealed to the mothers or daughters!”
says 72-year-old Pham Thi Nguyet, whose family still produces “Cốm”.
After the “Cốm” has been pounded, the crystal spring rice is wrapped
tightly in emerald lotus leaves to keep it from ...

... Vietnam) water-puppet theatre located near the lake. This is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam. The puppets are made out of wood and then laquered. The shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers, who were hidden behind a screen decorated as a pagoda ...

... arrived in Saigon, although there was information on the in-flight magazine about the taxi fare from the airport to the city, we still got a high-priced taxi of VND 400,000. It turned out as the wheels went rolling that it was a rented car and we paid before leaving to a guy they say was the manager of Dich Vu Du Lich Tourist Service (company name on the receipt).


We let it passed and looked for the Long Guest House. Guest houses that time were fully booked in Saigon ...

... that are still popular amongst the farming communities in rural Vietnam? What about a damn baseball cap? To all of these propositions, Asians say no. Towel on the head remains the most popular means of providing shade on the go. I have tried to do towel on the head, but my head is funny-shaped and the washcloth always just falls off. If you want to be really invisible in Asia, you should wear towel on the head while squatting and picking your nose with a utility ...

... Our first shop was a commercial chain, a bit like Top Shop, and we discovered how small asian clothes really are. Emma was a little upset when the only size that would fit was XL. It definitely kept the shop clerk busy trying to find items in that size. Next of all we found a local silk dress shop. This time no prices where on the items, which meant a chance to barter. Something neither of us have ever done before. In the ...