Hanoi Trip

This time round I went to Hanoi.
Some people might be thinking hmmm is just another part of Vietnam but Hanoi is a place that able to let you gain or feel a different kind of experience from Ho Chi Min.
Why would I say that because for me I feel that Ho Chi Min is a place for more shopping and where else Hanoi is a place more for scenery.

This picture was taken while waiting for boarding the plane.

took this picture while we're in the plane, the journey from SG to Hanoi is about 3 hours files. Most people will feel abit bored and hungry during the journey of cause including me.. hahaha..
But most of them choose to take a nap, I do take a nap during the journey too but i feel super hungry so we take picture just to pass time.

remember i mention on the above saying that I'm super hungry during the files. Yes hungry, I'm not the only person feeling hungry Jerome feel as hungry as me too. Hahaha.. So once we alight from the plane and collected our luggage we quickly head straight towards the small cafe and have our late lunch.

while we're on our way out for dinner suddenly one lady came up to us and say take picture picture and i turn back and look at Jerome and we turn back tell her no we don't want because she carry the bunch of fruits walking around and ask people to buy, that's why we though that she's going to ask us to buy. But she's quite smart she just put the punch of fruit on my shoulder and non stop saying take picture for free. So we both really though is free and took picture shown on the above. Guess what !!! End up she make us buy one small packet of fruits from her. Hahahaha... -.-"

We had seafood for our dinner on our first night there and is not cheap.

After our dinner we went to their night market at shop. Their night market is just like our
" Pasmalam " in Singapore But their night market only open during the weekend from 7pm to 11pm.

Our 2ND day, morning we had our breakfast in our hotel they provide breakfast buffet. We didn't take any photos of it because we didn't bring the camera along with us during breakfast. But their breakfast is just a simple type they have about 15 choices for us to choose I can't forget their pumpkin soup is so nice to drink.. yum yum..

Our lunch for 2ND day is their chicken kwayteow soup that sold at those road side shop.

After lunch we to their famous pound near by is ( Hoan Kiem Lake ) and there's
a temple name ( Ngoc Son Temple )

this tortoise belong to the lake but one day someone in the temple spotted the dead tortoise and bring it back into their temple and preserve it. But as what i know they said there's 2 similar tortoise in the lake which mean the other one is still in the lake.

After taking a walk at their famous lake side we went to buy ticket for their water puppet show they have timing just like we go for movie but instead movie is those puppet acting in water. We buy ticket for night time 8pm and we bought the first roll infront of the stage.
Once we buy the ticket we walk around and see is there anything for us to buy back before we go back to our hotel and have rest before we head out at night again.

before we went back to the hotel and rest we buy sugar cane and drink the stall is just outside our hotel.

the puppet show begin..

this is the first time i watch the water puppet show is very nice and they have a stroy line.
The part i like most is the horse jump in toward the fire and some part is very funny. Good perfrom. ( :

3rd day we went for our one day trip with their located tour, we went to ( Hoa Lu - Tam Coc ) and we have to wake up at 7plus their located time because the bus will come to our hotel and fetch us up between 8am to 8.30am

at the rest stop before we continue our journey first they bring us to their famous temple and sad to say while we're on our way the rain start to fall and when we reach the first location of the day the rain start to fall heavily and all of us have to either carry an umbrella or wear rain coat. Our tour guard is nice she bought each of us a rain coat.
But very sad to say that we didn't really took any picture while we visit their temple.
Luckily the rain getting lighter while we have our lunch in a restaurt is a buffet style.

once after our lunch we went for the boat ride

everyone is holding on to umbrella but we're holding on the a big plastic that the auntie lend it to us to cover our self from getting wet because is start to drizzle.

while the auntie paddle us back to shore she ask us to help her to paddle and at time we can give a try paddling actually is quite fun but our hand will get very tiring easily not like those people they're use to it and is part of their job and is not an easy job.
Overall, have a great short trip with Jerome my boy I enjoy it alot. Hope you people out there if you are planning for a short trip will consider about Hanoi.