We have been in Hanoi, North Vietnam for a whole week! and survived...just! Hanoi itself scared us completely when we first arrived. Really noisey, busy, motorbikes everywhere beeping there horn at seems like everybody-all day, all night. I will add photos of the craziness of Hanoi. We therefore have spent most of the time out of the city on tours. On Friday we took a day trip to the Perfume Pagoda. This involved a 2 hr bus trip, 11/2 hr boat trip ( well not really a boat, a 4 man metal punt) -a poor local lady had to row us there and back and had blisters to show for it), we then had an hr climb to the Pagoda, then obviously climbing back down ( this was the start of our exercise this week). Once
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