Well we finally arrived in Vietnam for our spring break trip. Steve's sister Jess is visiting us, so all three of us started in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. After a scammer taxi driver, we arrived at Hanoi Backpackers hostel on foot and in one piece. It was a really great place, and we could walk to almost anywhere. We did a bit of window shopping, and walked over the Huc bridge onto the Ngoc Son temple, where legend has it a giant tortoise came to retrieve a magic sword from a Vietnamese King. We had a great Vietnamese dinner over looking Hoan Kim lake in the old quarter, and called it a night. The next day we walked to Ho Chi Min's mausoleum, but decided not to wait in line to go inside (
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