Sunday, 11 December 2011

Vietnam- Hanoi

So now we are in Hanoi! And I am out of steam, and hung-er-y!

Hanoi is a cool little city, busy but friendly. Today we visited Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, a bit creepy but very interesting from a fly-on-the-wall perspective. We also went to the Temple of Literature where Confucious studied and taught ["he is older than Jesus, if he acually existed"- Sean] which was very pretty and ate at KOTO "Know One Teach One", a not-for-profit restaurant that teaches hospitality skills to previously homeless kids. Awesome. Everyone is well-dressed here because cheap nice clothes are on every corner, which is a bit embarrassing for us stinky dirty backpackers but interesting to see on everyone else.

Tomorrow we are heading on a one-day, two night trip to Halong Bay, sleeping in a 'junk' on the water and visiting caves and such things.

Hello natural wonder of the world and goodnight blogger for today!

2 comments:

sueke said...

Good morning blogger and both very hungry travellers. Thank you for the posts. All sounds awesome. We are looking forward to the photos and stories, esp Grandma, who was very amused to hear about the treehouse.
S&S&C
xx wag

Elke Frank said...

Guten Appetit!
Thanks for all the blogging. It's great to read and hello to the two of you!

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