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86 Ma May, Hang Buom Hanoi, Vietnam, 10000
24th to 26th Aug 2007 Well after a 2 hour delay to my flight from Vientiane, Laos, I touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam at 2100. At least my taxi was waiting for me when I came through customs. Yesterday I had a getting to know Hanoi day along with booking a few trips. I booked a city tour for today (26th) and a 2day/1night tour to Ha long Bay staying overnight on a junk boat. The traffic here in Hanoi is a bit manic to say the least and you take your life in your hands when you want to cross the...
Hanoi, Vietnam duncanmHappy in Hanoi It was great getting to Hanoi. The army personel in loud green uniforms, as well as the dull communist (sorry, socialist) architecture straight away told you you were somewhere different. After the stink and heat of Bangkok, Hanoi was a dream. Lush paddy fields lined our taxi ride in, the people were friendly, and remarkably, it was cold. Well, jumper cold. Not Edinburgh cold. It's not very hard to see the French influence in the city (and all of Vietnam by all accounts), every...
Hanoi, Vietnam lisamcsherryBack in Hanoi - Cooking up a feast.... Arrived back in Hanoi after our Ha Long bay trip and decided not to go back to the same hotel.... we'll miss those rats but I think we will cope. Sunshine 2 hotel was perfect as it had it's own internet in the room didn't seem to have any rodent friends and we soon relaxed by booking ourselves onto a Vietnamese cooking course at a nearby restaurant. None of the menus inspired us much but the fact we could eat on this one along the way was a good selling ...
Hanoi, Vietnam mikeandmarishaWe decided to take a 2 night 3 day boat trip to Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island. We booked with Sunshine Travel (Sunshine Hotel 2) Ma May Street. It cost us $80 each...all food included. We were a bit weary booking it as you cant help but feel cautious handing over money in Vietnam! But we had nothing to worry about....the whole trip was amazing. Overnight on the boat, which was a great cabin for 2 with bathroom and shower. When we arrived at the boat after a small 3hr minibus journey from Hanoi...
Halong Bay, Vietnam richie-ruthUp at 4am to catch our flight. Arrived here at 9am. We met up with a Swiss girl Anouk and she stayed with us for the next couple of days.We ended up at the Prince guesthouse which turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. There was an old man asleep in the bed as we got to our room, looked like he lived there but after much giving out to the hotel dude we got the whole bedroom re cleaned! Not the best start you would think. Anyway Hanoi is mad! One word to describe it is noisy!!! Cars and motorb...
Hanoi, Vietnam sheilamaloneOk for anyone who may be going to Vietnam in the future do not stay in the Prince guesthouse! Flippin mental assylum. Got up at 8am, awake since God knows what time! We found our little heaven in the Sunshine 2 hotel on the Ma May. The rooms are fab and we got a power shower and a computer to boot! 3 of us in the room only $8 each! Today was museum day. Headed off to the Museum of Ethnology. Our taxi driver was a bit confused about where it was so when a security guard put him right, this was...
Hanoi, Vietnam sheilamalone
ore 5.00 e' ora di alzarsi e preparare i bagagli. Visto che il Bus Express prenotato per raggiungere l'aereoporto tardava, abbiamo deciso di prendere un taxi. Siamo arrivati appena in tempo per salire sull'aereo. Partenza ore 6.45 dall'aereoporto Suvarnabhumi Bangkok - arrivo ore 8.30 aereoporto Noi Bai Hanoi Vietnam. Con un bus raggiungiamo in centro l'agenzia viaggi e ritiriamo i biglietti ...
Hanoi, Vietnam karkade... the area is a slow (and strenuous) activity as the
sidewalks have been converted into parking areas (and temporary
garages) for motorbikes, forcing us to walk in the streets and dodge
traffic. We hold our bags close, as every female staying in our dorm
room has stories to share of being robbed and some have even been
mugged at knife-point. Nice city, hey? We manage to find the markets,
but a vegetarian restaurant proves to be a more difficult ...
... in Vietnamese, which was not very nice and soon he was let inside to find them. We were all very nervous because the other boat men were preparing the boat to leave and we thought that Son and the other 2 wouldn't get off in time before it left. Then there they were and we all retrieted back to the steps waiting further information from Son. We headed to the main terminal to catch the slow ferry back only to be told 'No' again - so Son arranged for us to ...
Hanoi, Vietnam amynshell09Salut! C'est deja l'heure du retour vers Hanoi. Quoi de spécial aujourd'hui?....Bof, petite journée....Les memes backpackers rencontrés il y a 2 jours, essayant de dégriser de leur party de 3 jours, encore saoul et gelés ....Des revendeurs de bouffe persistants.....Un début de grippe pour Stéphane.....Une foule incroyable au port de Halong Bay.......4 heures d'autobus a se faire brasser le ponpon vers Hanoi........Un déluge sur ...
Hanoi, Vietnam bart0073
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