Hi everyone, we have been in Vietnam 3 days already, in Hanoi. My first impression of northern Vietnam is that it looked greener than Thailand, at first glance. There are lots of green rice paddies very close to the airport, whereas Thailand hadn't had rain for 4 months in places and lots of land was fallow, waiting for the rainy season to plant more rice.
The houses in the old quarter of Hanoi have a definite French influence and are tall and thin in lovely bright colours as you come in to Hanoi city. There have been a lot of new high rise buildings in the last 5 years.
We are in a lovely hotel in the old quarter, called Church hotel, very new and we can step outside into a mass of life going on, people selling everything you can think of, ladies carrying heavy baskets of food as you can see in the blog photo, millions of motorbikes. It was very scary for me trying to cross a busy road at first, but I am already used to doing it, walking very slowly, (Gavin says the secret is to think of it as like crossing a river, and the bikes just gracefully go around us )...hopefully :).
Gavin is now busy sorting out our next move so we have walked around the streets and the girls have enjoyed doing a bit of shopping. I have taken a few street photos. The girls got conical hats on and held two baskets of food for photos. We should be moving down south soon, towards Ho Chi Min, where we fly from next, we will know more soon.
Love to all xo ** Karen
The houses in the old quarter of Hanoi have a definite French influence and are tall and thin in lovely bright colours as you come in to Hanoi city. There have been a lot of new high rise buildings in the last 5 years.
We are in a lovely hotel in the old quarter, called Church hotel, very new and we can step outside into a mass of life going on, people selling everything you can think of, ladies carrying heavy baskets of food as you can see in the blog photo, millions of motorbikes. It was very scary for me trying to cross a busy road at first, but I am already used to doing it, walking very slowly, (Gavin says the secret is to think of it as like crossing a river, and the bikes just gracefully go around us )...hopefully :).
Gavin is now busy sorting out our next move so we have walked around the streets and the girls have enjoyed doing a bit of shopping. I have taken a few street photos. The girls got conical hats on and held two baskets of food for photos. We should be moving down south soon, towards Ho Chi Min, where we fly from next, we will know more soon.
Love to all xo ** Karen
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