Some of my friends thought I should start a blog about our travels, so here it is
Sal made a prophetic comment the day before, “We need to go to bed early, because we passed a lot of roosters.” Boy was he right. Those jerks wake you up at 5:30 a.m. Crikey! It’s impossible to fall back asleep then because everything else starts waking up then: dogs, people, etc.. Like I said: noise really carried in that valley. You know who else woke up? The guys playing the drums. They started drumming before 8 AM. Talk about perseverance…
When we first checked into the hotel they had told us specifically about two tours: one food tour and one early morning flower market tour. We had already scheduled a food tour and we debated for several days on whether we should do the flower market tour. The problem was it started at 5:30 a.m., because the flower market is from midnight until 6 a.m.. With only one day left, we decided to bite the bullet and do the tour. They were a bit surprised. It ended up being a private tour, because nobody really wants to get up at the buttcrack of dawn. No sane people, at least.
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It was a slow day to begin with; we didn’t even leave the hotel until after lunch. Sometimes you need to rest and recharge, and I guess this was one of those days. We didn’t have anything on the agenda until the evening, so the day was ours to wander around, and we did.
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I woke up to some sort of announcement on a megaphone at 6:45 a.m.. Then there was another at 7. Clearly noise ordinances aren’t a thing here in Hanoi. I joked with Sal that they were probably saying, “OK, now let’s get the honking going again!”, because soon after the traffic noises got going. Oh, Hanoi!
We got up and had breakfast in the room on the top floor of the building. Sal’s coffee shot:
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