Back to Hanoi

10/14/2006

This is a picture of typical Hanoi in that motos are everywhere and horns are constantly being sounded. We arrived in Hanoi this morning via the night train. We would spend one more day here before heading off to Halong Bay for some much-needed luxury on the beach and in the boat. After spending the morning watching a marathon of the TV show Entourage on HBO, I didn't do too much since I felt like I'd already seen much of Hanoi. One interesting store was that this morning Travis, Ellie, and I were looking for a laundry place to wash all of our nasty clothing from climbing the mountain. We found a place, and some guy on a motorbike came up and offered to do our laundry for cheap. I'm not sure why we actually gave it to him, but we arranged a pickup time at 10:30 pm and the guy actually showed up. We were pretty worried, however. It seems like he could make more money off our clothes than off the 1 dollar per kilogram price he was charging.

This evening we went to see a water puppet show, which is a traditional form of Vietnamese theater. The show consisted of puppets in the water being moved around while attached to sticks. It wasn't very exciting. At least it was short and the music was good.