Tay Ho Hanoi

Quang An-Tu Lien, Tayho Dist Hanoi, Vietnam

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Two weeks volunteering

A travel blog entry by lmoconno

Today I moved on to my volunteering in Hanoi. I got a motorbike taxi with my two bags twenty minutes across the city. Anyone who's seen the traffic in Hanoi know that's a bit crazy haha. I had to meet for 9am, and arrived promptly at 850pm :)  with quite a sore back!  When I arrived, I walked into the courtyard, took off my shoes and went inside. A …

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The raw chicken and dead shellfish diet

A travel blog entry by alexsadventures

... pretty well - until my students took me out for Lau.

My elementary 1 class was coming to an end, and so for our last lesson they decided to take me to a 'restaurant' for Vietnamese hotpot. So off we went to the local rat-infested hole, where we were presented with a gas stove, some vegetables, some soup, and a pile of meat. Raw chicken, shellfish, prawns - and what I can only assume was ...

HANOI, North Vietnam

A travel blog entry by kwdestinations

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... Vietnamese use in their cooking. We walked through noisy crowds viewing fish for sale and other items like coffee, spices and a swap meet full of items to see and BUY!!!

We then boarded a boat to take us down the river to a small village where we started our COOKING CLASS. We were the only Americans other than a fellow on leave from Afghanistan, travelling with his Vietnamese friend and parents. New Zealand and UK were outnumbering ...

The capital / la capitale/ Stolica

A travel blog entry by anna_e_mateusz

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... crema di cocco.
Ne vado matta, ogni giorno il solito. Dopo una giornata dedita alla scoperta del centro nella parte vecchia, il giorno seguente decidiamo di affittare uno scooter e prender parte a questo traffico che non ha code, io alla guida, vi assicuro che č meglio cosė. Visitiamo il Tempio della Letteratura, dove neo laureate (post cerimonia) coloramente vestite assaltano Mateusz e me (naturalmente la richiesta di avere ...

Sitting In Plastic Chairs

A travel blog entry by thestewarts

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... also helped by the company of a lovely young German couple we met there. On the first day, we visited the caves, kayaked (definitely the way to really appreciate the scale of the karsts), and the food was actually really nice.

We were supposed to be spending 2 nights on the boat, but on the second morning we were told ‘the water pump was broken’ (ummhmm…..) so we had to be moved to a hotel on Cat Ba Island, and by this point, even though we knew it ...