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Today we also wake up exceptionally early! why u may be asking... becoz, we've got lots of sights to see in Hanoi before heading to our next destination: Luang Prabang. So this morning, we waked up very early to head to Ho Chin Min Mausoleum. hahaha.... yeah, we're going there to pay our respects to 'Uncle Ho' as how the Vietnamese pple address him. today is exceptionally cold. When the wind blows, even with our jackets on, we're still shivering.... and my frens juz kept commenting 'samui! samui!' (tat's cold in jap)... hahaha... but we got no choice.... and we were so kiasu (don't want to loose to others), that we were there before the gates were open to allow visitors! becoz cameras and bags were not allow to be carried into the mausoleum, therefore we ... read more

we reached Hanoi at around 8.30am. having gotten all our luggage at the airport, we had to try looking for the taxi driver who was being sent by the guesthouse to the airport to pick us up. finally we found the taxi driver and all of us piled into the car and we were very surprised that it was a MPV that came to pick us up (and in the vietnamese pple's context, this is the big taxi). as we were being driven along the streets to the city of Hanoi (it takes about 30 - 45min to reach the city from airport), 1 major thing i realised was, the weather was superbly blurr, meaning that it was terribly foggy. it was only much later when i talked to some other locals then know that at ... read more