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Friday, December 5, 2008

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I'm back from Hanoi! It was quite fun.

Super cute Mickey and Minnie Mouse in the Airport!!!

Nice view of the sunset from the plane window.

Streets in Vietnam. Quite interesting, there are a lot of women dressed in traditional Vietnam clothes selling stuff in baskets on the streets. And they like to eat food while sitting on low stools along a dark alley.

Me in the hotel. Haha, zi lian...

Near my hotel, there's this 100 year old church which the Americans did not dare to bomb during the Vietnam war. Yeah, that's why it's still here. It looks very very old.

This is some Vietnam dish consisting of some fish and vegetables and lots of oil that is horribly expensive. 90,000 dong for each person (9 Sing dollars). What a rip-off. My mum was complaining about it for the whole day. It wasn't exactly nice.

Confucius Temple of Literature. 1000 years old. It's kind of sad thinking that in Singapore, the oldest relic is probably 100 over years old. There are many stone turtles with names of scholars over the centuries, like this one.

Later that night, we went to watch a water puppet show. Afterwards we found out that the people moving the puppets were actually standing waist deep in water behind the curtain. Standing in water for one whole night. Quite sad.

YAY! This is probably the most fun part of the trip, going to Ha Long Bay. We had to take a 4 hour bus ride to the coast. This is a rice field seen along the bus ride. LOL. I was listening to "Dao Xiang" when the bus rode past the rice fields. Haha. very interesting.

Finally reached Ha Long Bay. The name means Descending Dragon, they said that a legendary dragon came down from heaven to help the people, and the Bay looks like the dragon's body.

We went onto a junk, which we were going to stay for one night, together with another Malaysian family and an Australian couple.

My Brother.

Me acting retarded on the boat.

We went to a super nice island and climbed up the hill to get a nice view of Ha Long Bay. Super nice! You can see the junks parking near the island.

Nice Rainbow beach. Haha

It's cold. Haha

Beautiful sunset!

Next morning, we rowed a small boat into a small cave. Very cool, then beyond the cave, there were many mountains hidden within itself.

Came back from Ha Long Bay (aww), went to a military museum and saw all the war stuff.

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