Hanoi - Vietnam Begins

Good Morning Vietnam!!!

There are so many mopeds here! I have literally never seen anything like it in my life! Crossing roads in Vietnam should be a new Olympic sport. Hanoi was a really amazing city, we spent the first day orientating ourselves and adjusting to the Vietnamese culture – that wasn’t too difficult though, the people are much nicer here.

In the old quarter (where we were staying) all the little streets were broken up in to their own separate districts – there was a hardware district, underwear district, shoe district etc, it was really cool and at least you knew where to go to find things!

We went to see the ‘world famous water puppet theatre’, I was a little skeptical but it was a really cute show. During our time in Hanoi we also hired a moped so we could explore the city – it was so much fun! We got to see so much more of the city this way and went to explore the Ho Chi Minh museum and mausoleum and have a look around the French architecture there.

 Ho Chi Minh's 'house'