4days 3nights Hanoi Trip

Travel: 17-20 Sept, 2007 (Free & Easy tour)
Airline used: AirAsia
Hotel: Golden Sun Hotel (USD27 x 3nights)

Expenses: Rate based on per person
Booked APT tour:-
Halong Bay: USD20
HuaLu Tam Coc : USD14
Water Puppet: USD2.5
City Tour: USD15


We arrived Hanoi at around 8.00pm++ Nothing can be done on the 1st day of our Hanoi trip. So after we check in our hotel, had our dinner right opposite our hotel.. Beer in Hanoi were darn cheap..

Day 1 : Halong Bay
We booked one of the day trip to Hanoi. The tour picked us at our hotel at 8.00am, after 3-4hrs of bumping and honking on the streets of Hanoi, we finally arrived Halong Bay..

No doubt the view was great.. air was refreshing.. and we start cruising on the junk boat.


Floating Market at Halong Bay

Selling fruitssss



Floating School at Halong Bay



View from boat at Halong Bay

Parking our junk boat and head to one of the caves and head back to Hanoi City after HAlong bay

At night, we took a trip to the Water Puppet Show.. nothing really fancy.. but something U will need to visit if you have never seen it before.

Day 3 - Hua Lu Tam Coc

The next day, we booked another tour to Hua Lu Tam Coc.

The journey again was humping.. honking..

Once we reached there, we hop on a tin boat.. and they start rowing us ..

Our meals at Hua Lu Tam Coc . NOte..Vietnamese love VEGEsss..im really not a big fan of vege!

Views from Hua Lu Tam Coc.. Check out the Tin BOAT..

Crazy traffic in Hanoi..

Day 4 - City Tour
On our last day of our trip, we hired the hotel's driver to take us around the city.

Visiting Ho Chih Minh Musuem

Photo of Ho Chi Minh

Literature Museum

One Pillar Pagoda which is just next to Ho Chi Minh Musuem

Bad Traffic in Hanoi City.. they HONK ..HONK.. Honk.. all the way...

One of the shop outside our hotel.

Shopping in Hanoi is cheap.. but they got alot of pirated stuff.. If you are in Hanoi, I would strongly recommend you to buy handmade beads bag for ladies... my family bought few hand made beads bags which cost only RM20++, I've seen in KLCC, Malaysia selling for almost RM90++ each for beads bags.


Wonderful trip in Hanoi! See you again..

Summary:

Things to do in Hanoi:

1) Halong Bay ( 1day trip)

2) Hua Lu Tam Coc (1 day trip)

3) Municipal Water Puppet Show (at night)

4) Hoam Kiem Lake, Literature Museum, Ho Chi Minh Musuem, (City Tour - 1/2 day)

5) Shopping..

6) Eating at the roadside.. might be abit dirty but anyway just an experience, no harm trying anyway.. !

7) Drinking BEER .. Beers are really really cheap in Hanoi..!!