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March 18, 2007
Hanoi (Katy)
We arrived in Hanoi at about 5.30am yesterday morning. I must admit, first impressions weren't all that great. First of all it was raining, dark, the taxi driver couldn't find the hostel then we had to wait nearly 3hours for a room. After a fourteen hour train journey we were just a bit tired.
It continued to rain but we managed to sort ourselves out a bit. We didn't really explore to much, apart from the Old Quarter. We did however manage to get hopelessly lost (more than once). All the streets look the same. We managed to walk round in circles, just missing our hostel everytime.
After visiting many tour operators we managed to find one that would sell us just a bus ticket to Halong Bay, not the whole package tour. Most of the tour operators simply wouldn't allow it. Why didn't we want to go on their whole tour?
Posted by admins at March 18, 2007 6:59 AM