After getting an earlier flight out of Queenstown to avoid the blizzard that was on its way, we were delayed out of Auckland and missed our connecting flight from Hong Kong to Hanoi, a boring 10 hours in HK airport was endured and we got to Hanoi at 8pm, but had a lovely surprise when we arrived at our hotel that we had been upgraded to a premium room, yay.
The heat/humidity is incredible, even the locals are fanning themselves.
We went out exploring today. This post is very image heavy.
The above photo is typical of the pavements here, they are rugged, but I haven’t seen anyone fall over yet
We went on a 60 minute tour of the old part of Hanoi in one of these electric buses
Pavers anyone?
Piles of silk yum
Local Habadashery, the place to go if you need a zip or three. The streets here a lined with trees, its lovely, and helps keep it a bit cooler, ha what a joke, its soo hot.
View for lunch, they even had a sewing machine in the restaurant – definitely my kind of place.
We bought a piece of art, here they are rolling it into a tube for us.
Construction sites are hilarious, not Health and Safety here!
This is a guy who hand carves intricate stamps for you.
Stationery Shop. And Food market
These turtles were waiting to be bought and eaten – they were still alive!! Trevor was quite traumatised by that!
When you need a toilet delivered, give this guy a call
Need a teapot, or cup?
Local butcher