Day 1 Vietnam Tour - Hanoi

We decided to take some time out of booking hotels and planes etc and let a tour company do it for us for the next 15 days in Vietnam.

So Day 1.
This is the evening we meet everyone in our tour. 15 days to spend with these people.

We had our meeting in the evening and introduced ourselves.
Kyimm is our leader he is vietnamese.
Carmel - From Bolton, has been living in Sydney in Alexandria, worked for 6 years at o2 down the road from my mums for 6 years. (31)
Amber - From Queensland
Erika - American girl been travelling Europe
Lynn - Glasgow (25)
Sue - New Zealand
Mary and Rollin - The mum and dad of the group from south of Sydney

Then we went for a meal, at the Little Hanoi, this was a little restaurant upstairs in the old quarter.

Before meeting everyone though me and Simon decided to explore some of the town. This was going okay for a while, we walked around a corner and then another corner and then had to stop to think okayyyyy how are we now going to get across the road. To truly appreciate how mad it is, heres some clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4BN9kInXg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_5uMtPqPtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIMbDIJSlQ&mode=related&search=
The first time we attempted to cross the road i tried to get a guy in the paint shop to help us he just laughed at us, and when we did cross we cheered, he laughed :-)

Next stop therefore that wasnt to far walking distance was in fact the war museum. Not really my cup of tea but netherless it was interesting to look at the pictures and read the wording about how america got involved in the Vietnam war.

Whilst im writing this im sat at the computer in the reception of the hotel and im looking across the road at a makeshift barbers. Its a chair on the side of the road and he is triiming the guys hair with a mirror in front, a clock on him. It would look extremly professional if it wasnt for the fact it wasnt ourside on the pavement. The barbers chair up the road even has an electric razors, he has managed to connect the razor to the electricity cables running along the road.