Our soft sleeper train pulled in to Hanoi at 5am. The bed was fine with 4 rather than 6 beds per compartment but not the luxury we had read of power points and free noodles.
The 26deg heat at that time of the morning was nice to feel but did make a taxi tempting. The walk was about 30mins to our Atlantic hotel in the old town area, we were wrecked & luckily they had a spare room to give us till ours was free.
We had breakfast at ladybird cafe then started checking out the Halong bay trips originally thinking a day trip would do us then seeing the max 4hrs there we spent more and booked the overnight stay on a junk boat hopefully its worth it.
The picture of the street doesn't do the number of endless motorbikes justice but it is what the old town streets look like & the picture of all the birds stacked up was street food being sold next to the cafe we had lunch.
Warmth from now on so we got prices for sending gear on to NZ and walked around the central lake with an icecream where loads of newly weds were having photos.
With an extra week than planned spent in China we decided against the 3 day train trip down the coast of Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh and booked our flight for when we get off the boat trip.
Spring rolls & lemongrass chilli chicken for dinner then a stroll through the busy but fairly plain night market(China takes the gold medal so far for markets).
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