HANOI & HA LONG BAY, VIETNAM - (May 2007) Fri 4th to Thurs 10th May -(Hanoi) After another night journey on the bus between Hue and Hanoi (660km), the bus arrived in Hanoi at around 5:30 in the morning. Again it was the usual scramble at the bus drop off point as the toutes tried to get you to stay at 'their' hotel. A few hours later and after several visits to hotels and waiting around for rooms to be 'made-up', I found a place in the old part of Hanoi which is where the majority of backpacker places are. Like the western way of spelling 'Vietnam', the western way of spelling 'Hanoi' as one word is incorrect. 'Hanoi' should be, and is always spelt in Vietnamese, as two words. 'Han Oi', meaning the City in
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