Hanoi II - Vietnam
6/25/05
Well, we arrived late in Hanoi. There was a problem with the train and we were supposed to arrive at 5:30 a.m., but we arrived at 8:30 a.m. We didn't notice anything, of course, as we were comfortably sleeping; as a result, we missed our bus going to Halong Bay and the hurricane schedule fell apart.
That wasn't so bad, because we could just start the tour on the following day with no problem nor extra costs; and we had one whole day to do nothing and rest.
Hanoi is a big city with 3.5 million people and like most of the big cities it offers lots of activities but we were too tired to go anywhere. The only thing we did, was to walk around in the Old Quarter, where our hotel was located, in search of food.
The Old Quarter has more than 1000 years of history and it really deserved much more attention than what we gave to it, but we really wanted to rest and to walk in its streets was not a relaxing thing. It seems that each single person of the 3.5 millions inhabitants of Hanoi has a motorbike, which makes the streets absurdly busy.
It would be really hard to describe it and pass the real feeling of how busy it is, so not to rely on my words I made a short movie of this crazy intersection with no traffic light where they, somehow, just keep going, no one stops and they don't crash, the same thing as in Cambodia.
Download the Crazy Crossing movie.
Well, we arrived late in Hanoi. There was a problem with the train and we were supposed to arrive at 5:30 a.m., but we arrived at 8:30 a.m. We didn't notice anything, of course, as we were comfortably sleeping; as a result, we missed our bus going to Halong Bay and the hurricane schedule fell apart.
That wasn't so bad, because we could just start the tour on the following day with no problem nor extra costs; and we had one whole day to do nothing and rest.
Hanoi is a big city with 3.5 million people and like most of the big cities it offers lots of activities but we were too tired to go anywhere. The only thing we did, was to walk around in the Old Quarter, where our hotel was located, in search of food.
The Old Quarter has more than 1000 years of history and it really deserved much more attention than what we gave to it, but we really wanted to rest and to walk in its streets was not a relaxing thing. It seems that each single person of the 3.5 millions inhabitants of Hanoi has a motorbike, which makes the streets absurdly busy.
It would be really hard to describe it and pass the real feeling of how busy it is, so not to rely on my words I made a short movie of this crazy intersection with no traffic light where they, somehow, just keep going, no one stops and they don't crash, the same thing as in Cambodia.
Download the Crazy Crossing movie.
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