Time for the penultimate tour of this long journey and one of the countries I was most looking forward to!
Instantly missing thailand after the week I’ve already had in Hanoi and the ease or 7/11!
We meet the group tonight, 18 people, so a full one. As expected, I was the oldest, and the nationality mix is 7 x Germans, 1 x Dutch, 6 x Auzzies, and 4 x English (including me).
We went for dinner as a group and then some of us went to Beer Street. Which was so busy! So many bars full of people sat on the tiny chairs and stools!
We started the day with our CEO taking us on a walk that ended with a traditional egg coffee or for me egg chocolate!
Hoa Lo Prison Relic
Not all of the prison remains, but from what we could see, the conditions would have been crammed, uncomfortable, and dirty. A lot of the POWs from the Vietnam War were held at this prison, and as the local man from the Jeep tour had mentioned, they got information out of the American pilots to use against the US.
We then walked back to the lake and had lunch. Passed a couple of things on the way!
Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre
Vietnam has a tradition of water puppets, here in Hanoi they have a theatre and kept this tradition alive. It’s very impressive the amount of work that goes into the show and maintaining the puppets they use.
Train street
Even though I’d been to one area of train street in the daytime and rain, it’s quite another to experience it in the night time! The police are trying to limit access due to an accident earlier this year when a Korean tourist got hit by the train while taking a photo. They open the line at 9 pm, and you go in and sit at a cafe and order a drink and then watch as the train comes past ,sat safely in your seat next to the track. As I found when I previously saw the train before its petty fast! Train Street was really pretty with all the laterns at night.
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