So we arrived into Hanoi and after a little bit of confusion at immigration (we lined up in the vietnamese citizen line, just trying to fit in with the locals) we made it through got our bags and went to find the person who was meant to be transferring us to our hostel, after 15 minutes of searching we went and brought a sim card so we could call the hostel. strangly the unstructions for how to work the sim card were all in Vietnamese which was very inconsiderate i think, but we worked it out in the end, called the hostel but they had no record that they were meant to pick us up.
we went outside and were very quickly ushered into a waiting taxi, a little apprehensive we gave them the address of the hostel. it didnt take long to realise that in Vietnam horns are more favourable than use of the breaks or doing head checks (maybe you should come to Vietnam darc, wouldnt have to do head checks) our driver pretty much beeped the horn the entire 30 minute drive, at one point we went through a 4 way intersection, our driver beeping and dozens of motor bikes coming the other way driving around us, was crazy! i saw too many crazy sites to name on that drive but some included, houses been built been held up by lots of sticks (i'll take a photo of this and post it later), people sitting in the middle of the road with slabs of meat on blankets cutting it up, a little girl on the back of a motorbike tied to her mum with a scarf, a woman carrying a stick behind her neck with large containers hanging from each end (one filled with GOLDFISH and the other filled with flowers), a person riding a motor bike with one hand and holding an umbrella with the other, a person on a motorbike with a TRACTOR tyre attached to the side of it!!! plus many many more crazy things. i wanted to tell the taxi driver to stop every 30 seconds so i could take photos, we;re about to go exploring and get some dinner now so i'll be sure to take lots of photos. its only 2.45pm here but we are just about ready for dinner and bed after only 3 or so hours sleep the past 24 hours.
hopefully i'll keep this updated as frequently as i have so far, fingers crossed the novelty wont wear off :-)
dooooooonnng
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Me (Pieta) & my boyfriend (Ewen) are leaving Australia on April 27th 2010 to embark on an 8 month backpacking adventure to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Croatia & England
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5 comments:
only took us 15 minutes to realize you had updated your blog!
i think mum refreshed this page every few minutes during the day ;)
THIS SOUNDS INCREDIBLE!!
can't wait to see pictures of it, my mind is filled with crazy, CRAZY visuals of Hanoi! hahaha.
i would like to live there-head checks are just a pain!!
i wonder if they just set up these strange things for the tourists, i mean a container with fish and one with flowers?!?!? hahaha!
when you buy young dinner-remember to emphasis on the DONGGGGGGGGGGGGG :)
Fantastic to hear from you sounds mad. You deserve gold star & elephant stamp as Ewen has blogged! Well done & enjoy
How funny I can see why you would of been in the vietnamese line you would of blended in so well. New rules "you arnt allowed in taxi's or on a bike its to dangerous" these new rules will be updated as we see fit. How exciting it sounds crazy you two will probably want to live there. Have a good sleep . Love you MUM AND DAD. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sounds very exciting Pieta!
Kylie, Bailey and I hope you are having a great time - and it already sounds like you might have filled your SD card with photos! :D
Cheers,
Giles.
This sounds awesome:)
That lady must be mighty talented to carry the fish like that. I'd just like to let you know Mum sends out msgs when you update your blog.haha.Thanks for organising that with her.lol. PHOTOS PLEASE!!
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