Hanoi Hanoi

Vietnam was so hectic and I don’t just mean the roads. It’s easy to forget quite how big some countries are. Specifically how long Vietnam is. It is extremely long. Our flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi may only have been 2.5 hours but Hanoi felt like it was worlds away. The accents are different. The coffee is different. Even the food is different! But also super delicious. There are literally so many little shops for food absolutely everywhere so we only had to walk about three feet out of our hotel to try some great bun cha and right across from the hotel was a whole street of bars, creatively named “beer street”. Apparently this street is well known and the crowd reflected that so we only stayed for one overpriced beer and two free shots of something that I would hesitate to call vodka but was definitely called such. Also about every other restaurant there was a massage parlor. Surprisingly good massages for very cheap. I think Ben might have bruises from his last calf massage.

While in Hanoi we also managed to catch the full moon festival which coincided with the big weekend night market to make a HUGE market and lots of pretty lights and crazy displays. We would’ve stopped to buy something but pretty sure the whole population of Hanoi was also there so it was kind of a move or die situation.