sorry, only google translate… From our one-day return to Hanoi there is not much to tell, as we spent most of the time relaxing and shopping. The highlight was definitely the visit of the night market, which again had a completely different dimension than the ones seen so far. But good, the city is also a ...

Had we burnt our fingers in Cat Ba with the Vietnamese business, we have become more cautious, and rightly so. Our bus trip to Ha Long City should be a prime example of the fact that we are actually perceived by Vietnamese as only changing ATMs. A nice staff member of a travel agency had ...

After a quite pleasant – although this time due to the arrival time at 5:15 a bit shorter – night in the night train, we went back to our hotel in Hanoi, which had organized us the bus transfer to Cat Ba Island and promised us before a breakfast would have. That worked everything as ...

sorry, only google translate 🙁 The night train from Hanoi to Sa Pa is surprisingly pleasant and recommendable (as long as one is not above 1.80m). You sleep in a 4 person compartment – which we shared with two nice Australians – and the mattresses are thin, but for Southeast Asian conditions but quite ok (no ...

Since we landed late in the evening in Hanoi, we did not get much of Hanoi in the evening, but should change the next day. Hanoi is probably a typical Asian metropolis, but after we had not been to any of them, the traffic was almost the language. The pictures are probably more than we could ...