-Marco and I spent the day walking around the crazy bustling
streets of Hanoi. The streets here are very thin but are full of motorcycles,
cars, and people. We didn’t really walk anywhere in particular but just
wandered around enjoying the city.
Last time I came to Hanoi I hated it, but this time I wasn’t as tired
and hungry so actually enjoyed it quite a lot. We stopped at Daw… market and
bought some cheap North Face backpacks for our trip to Sapa later in the
evening. We saw the Old City Gate and the big lake here (name), stopping for
lunch at a little restaurant with the cutest 2-year-old boy helping out as the
waiter. The strangest thing is the people who come up to you on the streets
asking if you want your shoes shined when you’re wearing flip-flops. One even
offered to sew mine, even though they’re not broken.
Some views of the lake:
-In the evening we headed to the train station for our
overnight train to Sapa. We had two other Vietnamese men in our carriage, one
very fat and very drunk. He would not stop staring at us playing cards, that is
until he passed out and started snoring louder than I thought was physically
possible without waking yourself up. Needless to say I got no sleep.
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