Brigidine St Ives Vietnam Trip:
Day 1 in Hanoi:
Our first day started with a pleasant wake up call at 7.00am and a full breakfast at our very comfortable Hotel called Paradise 2 located at the northern end of the Old Quarter of Hanoi. After an 'as much as you could eat breakfast' we took a stroll around the streets familiarising ourselves with the orientation of things to our hotel and to the Lake. ( see photo IMG 0325)
The two tourist events for the day were getting a cyclo ride to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (photo IMG 0373) which closed at 12.30pm, so we took ourselves off for some lunch and then for a visit to the Ho Chi Minh Museum (not far from the Mausoleum). The second tourist event was a visit to the Museum of Ethnology to explore the different minority groups and the way in which they live. Unfortunatley the taxi trip cost us a 'little more' than the transport budget allowed due to some significiant overcharging. The group handled this first challenging event wel and with good grace and pleanty to talk about over dinner. The public bus trip back to our hotel was the bargain of the day for 3,000 dong per person and seemed like a very good idea.
What a good looking group! Thanks for photo and report. Hope you enjoyed New Year's eve in Hanoi. Fireworks in Sydney were spectacular.
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Sydney today maybe about as humid as Vietnam, and blue bottles galore down at beach. Hope adventures going great.
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(Mum keeps going into your room and just sitting there (!))
Hi, I’ll be going to Vietnam on Feb, could you please tell me how should i applying my Vietnam tourist visa? when I tried to search around and i found out there’s VOA for Vietnam which cost 25USD for 1 month validity as i checked on http://www.evisaasia.com/visa-requirement/tourist-visa-requirements-for-australia-citizens/ but wondering is this website reliable to apply my visa. Please advise Thanks
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