Back in Hanoi after a 3 day trip to Halong Bay. I'm wrecked now but it was really good. Of course, I'm sunburned as well! The trip was really cool, saw some amazing views - the bay seems to stretch for many miles with hundreds of small islands dotted around. Very odd place, looks like someone sprinkled a lot of massive rocks over the water.On the trip we visited a brilliant cave, no less. Parts of it looked like you were on the moon (no, I'm not drunk). The cave entrance was pretty high up so we got a lovely view of the surrounding islands from there.
We stayed on a small island for 2 nights with the group. There was pretty much just a beach, the bamboo bungalows we stayed in and a bar/eating place. The rest of the island was mostly rock and trees. The beach was beautiful and it was cool that it was just the group staying there so it was quiet during the day. We got on well with the people that went. There were 3 other Irish on the trip, a fella from Galway, one from Mullingar and a girl from Dublin. An English couple we met were really nice as well, it was good to meet people that had been in the other parts of Vietnam as we knew little about where else to go etc.Today we went to the Prison Museum in Hanoi, which was worth going to. It was fairly biased but what can you expect?! It seemed a lot more anti-French than anti-American for some reason. They were very quick to point out that the American POWs were allowed to play volleyball and were given Flip-flops by the Vietnamese government. Sounded like a great time! It was interesting to see John McCain's uniform on display there.
We're heading away from Hanoi tonight on a train down to central Vietnam, to a city called Hue. Another big train journey. The next major destination is China Beach which is about 4 hours from there. I really liked Hanoi, we didn't really get to see as much as we wanted, in terms of museums, attractions etc. I'd love to come back sometime.
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Sounds deadly. What's the food like?
Food's good. I prefered the stuff in Thailand. They all seem to eat Noodle soup here, which is okay but you can get a bit sick of it.
There's lots of "International" food in the cities, easy enough to find pizza and pub food when you get sick of the curry. Food on the island was muck though.
hi andrew,mam here.hanoi sounds nice .thinking of you over the bank holiday wkend.all well here.love,mam and dadx
I'm glad you got off the island ok. I'm torn between making a joke about meeting Leo DiCaprio and playing a lot of gameboy with an All Saints sound track or making some reference to The Others. I'll just do neither and wish yourselves a safe journey.
"You dont know.. you weren't there man.."
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