After a month at Peace House, it was time to say goodbye to the house we called home for 4 weeks and all the friends we have met along the way. Tran was there in the morning to see us off. May we meet again and also: mày
ah bưởi!
2 hour flight and we get a meal?
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| Quite. |
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| my broken table |
After checking into our hotel, we took a stroll around Ha Noi old quarters to take in the sights
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| A bag of frogs, how cute... |
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| Oh, nevermind. |
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| Our first bowl of northern pho, and just as we were told, it was much blander than southern pho |
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| Hoan Kiem Lake. According to legend, emperor Le Loi defeated and kicked out the Chinese occupying forces with a magical sword. It was at this lake where Le Loi returned the sword to the turtle god. |
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| At the lake. in the background you see the buu dien, post office |
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| Walt Disney opened a restaurant in Hanoi in 1966, shortly before his cryogenic sleep |
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| confused tree |
On Hoan Kiem Lake, there exists an island where the Ngoc Son temple lies
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| Skate culture in Ha Noi |
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| Shakin it up with Le Thai To |
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| We arrived in Ha Noi on the weekend of April 30th - Liberation Day. The day marks the anniversary of the liberation of Saigon in 1975, when the People's Army of Vietnam took the city thus marking the end of the American War |
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Water puppet theatre
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| Water puppetry: one of the goofier things I've seen in Vietnam |
Dinner at Ngon Ha Noi. We loved eating at Ngon in Saigon, we thought we would try the food at the northern branch
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| Jackie and her rice paper wad |
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| My beautiful salad roll |
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| trying soong sa hot lo in Ha Noi. Holds no candles to the one we had in Saigon |
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| Night market |
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