Ggggoooooooooooooooooooodddd Morrrrrrrrrning VIETNAM! HANOI: Stop Number 1, Country Number 1, DAY 1 - Wednesday 3rd October: First off, I regret that the first few entries on my travelogue may be rushed due to the ever-increasing backlog I face to recall accurately. Anyways, so after nearly missing my red-eye flight from Hong Kong, I landed safe...

Hi from Hanoi!  God this place is cool!!! :) Am loving it here, although only here for two days, i'm sure i'm gonna have some serious good times in this country :) And am happy as a little kid as well that i made it across the border from china into vietnam without any serious hassle!! Why?? Well, that's a little story that d...

heeh ... glad did not happened 2 me :) After the first day in Hanoi, I was really tired - the change of temperature killed me - it's really hot all the time, probably like 35 degrees + humidity and you feel like a sweating pig :) I was shopping and running around - it's amazing. Hanoi has 36 streets in the Old Quarter which are all named after a...

Arrived safely in Hanoi at 5:30 a.m. after a very pleasant train ride. My compartment companions were 2 Italian men, Juliano and Guiseppe and a Pakistani woman, Samella who was married to Guiseppe who works for an Italian oil company in Karachi.  Juliano didn't speak much English but he understood more. We had great conversat...

After a party week in HK, we were definitely ready for holidays and our trip ... we met up with Angella in the morning for coffee (thanks for the wake up call, Ange). We had a good laugh catching up and it was a good start of our trip. We took the bus to the airport, checked in, slept on the plane and arrived in Hanoi 30 minutes late. After...

After a very long very grueling journey, consisting of 2 days on 3 buses,the last being really crappy. However we are now in Vietnam and enjoying the better night life. Laos has a rule that all businesses have to be closed by 12pm so here its nice to be able to stay out until all hours. Met some more people who we saw in Luang Probang and went f...

Back in Hanoi and it is soooo loud. Halong Bay was nice and peaceful, Hanoi is very loud with all the honking of horns for other drivers to get out of the way!! I guess all of Vietnam is like this but you don't notice it until you've been somewhere where there is no noise!! We've spent time just walking the streets of the old town getting lost a...

Vietnam. My god. The place has almost worn me down to a shadow of the man I previously was! I'm almost certain there is a secret operation by the communist bastardized goverment here that has decreed that 90% of the Vietnamese must at all times try to piss tourists off as much as is humanly possible. It's a social experiment, it must be! As soon...

Steph here- Arrived safely in Hanoi on Sunday evening - how refreshing it was to emerge from an airport and NOT be hassled. We were kindly picked up by our guesthouse (the first time I've ever had my name displayed on a board at the arrivals point!!!) and given seats at the front of the mini bus. This I'm sure was to give us a preliminary lesson...

************************************** Update - September 2005 ************************************ I made it back to Vietnam, as part of another trip, in September 2005. Check out the entry for Hanoi here. It's a lot better of an entry than this crap. Honest. ************************************** Update - September 2005 ***********************...