Hanoi - our first encounter with Vietnam

Жарыяланган: 24.02.2019

Hanoi welcomed us with drizzle and 18 degrees. And it overwhelms us with impressions, so lively, loud, colorful, foreign and exciting. Of course, also really exhausting. So we put on rain jackets and sneakers and explore the city for kilometers and kilometers.

The markets here are also great


Something is sold on every corner
The streets in the Old Quarter are organized by product categories. There is a street full of hardware stores and next to it a street full of lantern shops
Many women pose in front of the sights in traditional silk dresses
The Vietnamese Barbie dolls too.

The temples are very different from those in Laos or Cambodia.
I would say 'Chinese'. Not only banknotes, fruit, incense sticks and cookies are brought as offerings
But also towers made of beer cans.
In one temple there was a large illustrated list of good and bad deeds, each with information about the consequences of the actions


The city is an architectural mishmash like no other



And around it all, the traffic roars, which consists mostly of scooters that can transport everything.


The train that runs through the residential area is also an experience, enthusiastically photographed by all tourists


The city is currently preparing for the meeting between Trump and Kim Jong-un, which will take place here next week.
We planned to visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum today, but were discouraged by a queue that stretched over a kilometer around the whole block.
We will do that next time.
We rented an apartment for four nights and enjoy preparing breakfast ourselves with cereal, finally no more eggs. We have a washing machine, our laundry is clean again for a long time... if only we had sunshine, everything would be great.







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Tomaso
Das ist ja spannend!

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