Viet Bac Hotel Hanoi

23 Hang Than Ba Dinh Hanoi, Vietnam

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A New World

A travel blog entry by mrsharvey

... tv, eating room service and packing all our belongings into one measly backpack. This morning we were up at six, ready to finish packing and eat breakfast before our driver arrived to take us to the airport. We met a lovely and very talkative couple from Calgary in the dining room, so ended up just being ready in time. On ourway in, we saw an Australian family getting out of a taxi and paying by credit card. "What should I write?" asked the woman. "It doesn't matter," boomed the ...

Chào Hanoi

A travel blog entry by maryandjeff

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... there is a very well defined hierarchy on the roads: Buses -> cars -> motorcycles -> scooters -> bicycles -> and at the bottom, pedestrians. With very few stoplights to cross at, pedestrians simply wade out into the swarm of cars and motorcycles rushing by and trust that every moving vehicle will avoid you. The crazy part is that this feels relatively safe after doing it a few times. The chaos slowly became our normal and we began to ...

Saying hey to Ho!

A travel blog entry by seanspacifica

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... That's Colin and Gill", my first thought was "who??" and then noticed Katy was following two people, (who slowly worked out were Katy's mum's cousin and his wife) back in the opposite direction from which we had walked. She was trying to be subtle and coughing/shouting Colin's name, she soon realised this was not having the desired effect so ran around in front of them and went for the surprise technique, not the best technique when every tourist is on their guard from pickpockets ...

In Laos

A travel blog entry by tanners-travels

... gate 7. Then they changed it to Gate 8, when they told us it would be 530 Before we left.Then they changed it back to Gate 7 so we all got in line to board ..... Then They changed it to Gate 6. Well finally they let us through gate 6 ..... To board a bus to go to the plane? Seems like any gate would be fine if you are just getting on a bus ?  Finally we did get out of VN and the plane was brand new! It smelled like a new car we found the whole fleet ...

Just stay alive!

A travel blog entry by ankesan

... wir im wirklichen Backpacker Viertel, da viele Leute in unserem Alter zu sehen waren.
Nach dem wir unsere Klamotten ins Zimmer gebracht hatten, gingen wir nochmal raus um was zu trinken. Um ca. 0h machten dann die ganzen Bars und Clubs dicht, wodurch wir nach einer halben Stunde Internetnutzung Richtung Zimmer gingen und uns schlafen ...