Well, there are so many feelings whenever recalling memories in the past. It's the trip that I combined in the trip to Moc Chau and Sapa. Totally I travelled 8 days.
I shared my part 1 in previous post, now it's part 2.
I shared my part 1 in previous post, now it's part 2.
Chua mot cot - Ha Noi
Actually after finished the trip to Sapa. My friend and I decided to travel to China. It's only the small town near by the Vietnam-China border called He Kou (河口) of Kun Ming city, Yun Nan province. Introduced by hotel owner, we no need a passport to travel to China. Just give the agency about $15, they will make me a temporary passport which is valid within one day and provide a tour guide who guide me how to get into He Kou.
Easily we came to China land which I used to dream to be there. However I soon disappointed because the guy accompanied with us to China has connection with the restaurant and they charge us a very high price for a very normal lunch ($30/meal for two). He also tried to direct us to shops or supermarket that I think he also had connection there. Thus, after we learnt from the expensive lunch, we resited his offers to visit other shops.
Although there were not many places to visit in that small town, I still felt the difference of architecture between Vietnam and China. The Chinese architecture is more modern compared to Vietnam. Although I had a bit of disappointment, I had different experiences in China. By the way I am still happy to be there in China once.
End of the trip, we took the train and came back to Hanoi where we had interesting journeys. We stayed at the hotel that we usually stayed every time we travel to Hanoi. It's a rather affordable hotel in the centre of the capital (named Heart Hotel) with the price of $30/night. I have to recognize that the hotel rate in Hanoi is really expensive.
In the next morning, we hired a motorbike and travelled around the Hanoi capital ($10/day). Although I visited Hanoi so many times but this was the first time I really travelled to famous tourism places in Hanoi.
I still remember the first time when I visited Hanoi with my lovely boss. She just gave me 2 hours for going around before flight time and she just sat in Highland coffee to wait for me. At that time, because the time was too short, I had no idea where to go. So I just walked around the Ho Guom lake and took pictures. After that time I promised to come back to Hanoi to visit other places, so this was the time I implement my promise.
At first, my friend and I rode on our motorbike to Van Lieu Quoc Tu Giam (it's the first university in Vietnam). There were a lot of activities on that day. Many students from other universities came there to celebate their graduation. Also, there were painting exhibitions and other events. I noted there were many foreigners visiting this famous place. After that we travelled to Ba Dinh square where the body of Uncle Ho put in. Unfortunately the museum was under construction during that period, so I couldn't get inside to see him. I could only visited Nha San, lake, Chua Mot Cot... During our trip we joined a tour from Saigon so we could listen to tour guide presenting the history of places we visited. That's our experience to not to hire a tour guide but we can still have a tour guide. What you can do is going very close to them and catch up every place they go, then tour member will think "oh they're also members" and the tour guide will say "oh our tour have two more members" :))
Although there were not many places to visit in that small town, I still felt the difference of architecture between Vietnam and China. The Chinese architecture is more modern compared to Vietnam. Although I had a bit of disappointment, I had different experiences in China. By the way I am still happy to be there in China once.
End of the trip, we took the train and came back to Hanoi where we had interesting journeys. We stayed at the hotel that we usually stayed every time we travel to Hanoi. It's a rather affordable hotel in the centre of the capital (named Heart Hotel) with the price of $30/night. I have to recognize that the hotel rate in Hanoi is really expensive.
In the next morning, we hired a motorbike and travelled around the Hanoi capital ($10/day). Although I visited Hanoi so many times but this was the first time I really travelled to famous tourism places in Hanoi.
I still remember the first time when I visited Hanoi with my lovely boss. She just gave me 2 hours for going around before flight time and she just sat in Highland coffee to wait for me. At that time, because the time was too short, I had no idea where to go. So I just walked around the Ho Guom lake and took pictures. After that time I promised to come back to Hanoi to visit other places, so this was the time I implement my promise.
At first, my friend and I rode on our motorbike to Van Lieu Quoc Tu Giam (it's the first university in Vietnam). There were a lot of activities on that day. Many students from other universities came there to celebate their graduation. Also, there were painting exhibitions and other events. I noted there were many foreigners visiting this famous place. After that we travelled to Ba Dinh square where the body of Uncle Ho put in. Unfortunately the museum was under construction during that period, so I couldn't get inside to see him. I could only visited Nha San, lake, Chua Mot Cot... During our trip we joined a tour from Saigon so we could listen to tour guide presenting the history of places we visited. That's our experience to not to hire a tour guide but we can still have a tour guide. What you can do is going very close to them and catch up every place they go, then tour member will think "oh they're also members" and the tour guide will say "oh our tour have two more members" :))
End of the tour, we brought with us the memorable things during the long trip to Moc Chau-Sapa-Hekou-Hanoi back to Ho Chi Minh city.
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