We finished our time in Vietnam with a bit of a misadventure in the extraordinarily beautiful and justly renowned Halong Bay, a World Heritage Sight about 150 kilometers (I’ve taken to thinking in kilometers, which are used here, although I cannot for the life of me (KK can, of course) make the conversion to miles [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Hanoi’
June 16, 2008
Seen around Hanoi
Here’s me and the boys on the Long Bien Bridge, which was finished in 1902 and bombed and rebuilt so many times during the American War, as it’s known here, that today it is a hodgepodge of construction styles. It’s about a mile walk across the Red River, which sort of splits Hanoi and runs north [...]
June 16, 2008
The Long Bien
The Long Bien bridge is in the north of Hanoi, crossing the Red River and connecting the west part of the city, which seems older and is where the tourists go, and the east part, which is where we walked around today.
The above picture was taken from the bridge, across which we walked today, and is [...]
June 14, 2008
Hot lunch spot
This place, three tables on an Old Quarter street corner in Hanoi, was packed when we went by around lunchtime, and closed tonight when we went back to see if we could get some of the noodles that looked so delicious earlier. We’ll try again today.
June 14, 2008
Open House
One of the things I’ve been wondering about is why scenes like this
draw me so much, make me grab for my camera. There’s nothing intrinsically interesting in this transaction, in an herb shop in Hanoi’s old quarter, or especially different from a transaction witnessed in a mall or on a busy shopping street at home [...]
June 14, 2008
Old Town Hanoi
Here’s our neighborhood. We’re staying at the Nam Hai 1 Hotel on Ma May Street in the Old Quarter — also known as the Quarter of 36 Streets, and also known as the Hoan Kiem District, for the lake nearby. We’re here because we met a mysterious Norwegian named Mr. Pen, at a restaurant in Hoi [...]
