Hanoi is hard to descibe: the roads are almost impossible to cross because of the unrelenting weight of traffic driving on both sides of the road in both directions; there are people constantly, constantly shouting at you to but their stuff (which gets very dull very quickly); the drivers are compulsed to use their horn whenever there is any justification, which results in an almost never ending din of car horns; and everything happens on the pavement: cooking, eating, showering, selling, buying, sharpening your machete, welding gates etc. It is very very overwhelming, unfortunately words cannot do it justice. So we quickly escaped to the peace of Hao Long Bay, an hour south-east of Hanoi its a world heritage site and incredibly beautiful. The water is flat as can be and the landscape is incredible. We
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