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Buddha, Take The Wheel!
Hello again everybody. The latest edition is coming to you from Hanoi. We finally made it to the capital city, after logging 35 hours of train travel, most of it at night! We came to Hanoi to check out the city obviously, but also to book a tour to the famous Halong Bay. Hanoi is a very hectic city, more so than Ho Chi Minh I think as the streets are very tight, and the traffic is fierce. Also, it is known as the scam capital of SE Asia, as we found about with a rip ...
Wahnsinn auf zwei Rädern
... und ist eigentlich nur in Hanoi, weil er sich von einem Unfall erholen musste, bei dem er sich den kleinen Zeh gebrochen hat. Bei dem Unfall war er allerdings nur Mitfahrer und sein eigenes Motorrad, das er vor wenigen Tagen gebraucht in Hanoi gekauft hat, ist er noch nicht wirklich oft gefahren. Am nächsten Tag wollte er aber eine kleine Tour außerhalb von Hanoi machen und je länger wir redeten desto besser fand ich die Idee..
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Cur- phew!
... some more sleep needed before the show. Just woken up and not feeling a hundred percent, getting ready anyway, I have paid for my ticket and everyone is going so sucking it up. The theatre felt quite warm and as soon as I sat down knew I'd made a mistake, if I was going to be sick I had a lot of bodies to get passed first to reach the safety of the toilet. I sipped on my water and tried to forget about it, the show was about to start ...
Seemas City Overview - Hanoi
... that. We spent the night in a boat with a tour group and made friends with two couples from Europe and some local students which was nice and we had our meals together etc. It was quite funny when the boat staff provided all the westerners with knives and forks as opposed to the chopsticks that everyone else had. The food was fantastic and they really did cater for everyone. We went to see the floating village and then we went kayaking. It was my first ...
Final Vietnamese Stop!
... the room with Uncle Ho's body - very strange!! Don't think I've ever been in a marble tomb with a corpse that looks like it could sit up before. After that we walked to the Ho Lao prison which was really good and informative - although slightly scary to walk around the cells by yourself in the dark. We took a break for some ice cream (good and posh, but probably overpriced) at Fanny's - which is apparently well-known. ...
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