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Asia, part III: Vietnam (1)

Richard Rosss
2006-04-03 13:39:58

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Lenin and all the goings on in the qtr. I went round a mkt and saw them chop up the meat and count the live chickens in baskets for the day's sale. I saw this funeral - a coffin was being loaded onto a hurst (transit van) and the family who all had white headbands on, cried for ages. They then walked behind bus for about 10mins... All the streets here mean something - one may be a basket weaving st, another may be metal stuff (you get the drift!) I noticed the same in S America...a reason or sheer coincedence. Also the tribal people up north, looked quite similair to the folks in Peru (costume etc)...

Sat in a cafe after and tried to dry off as the sweat was intense - its v hot here this week! Wrote up my diary for about 40mins. I had a few hrs to kill, so i went to the history museam. It was your bog std one with prehistoric relics, pottery and ancient parts of buildings. 2% was in English, so it wasn't hard to rush thru it (the best bit was the first Vietnam flag hoisted by Uncle Ho in '45). Round the museam the nice Hilton Hanoi and the Opera hse were located.

Halong Bay 31/7

I left Hanoi after meeting my comrades at the kangaroo cafe. We drove 3 hrs to Halong bay and then jumped on a nice boat to sail into the limestone mountains that jut out of the water. Amazing scenery - sat on deck, chatted and took some pics of it all. We then stopped for a swim at a secluded cove and then sailed for 25mins to another quiet bay for sunset. Watching the sunset with a cold beer was divine... Had a great meal that nite and some more beers. AS you swam in the darkness, the sea was lit up by phospherence (little plants/animals that give off light once disturbed!). Sat on deck and watched the star filled sky - saw three shooting stars!

The following day we went to Cat Ba island and saw some nice caves with huge limestone stalagmites/tites in them. The caves were in the middle of fish/prawn ...