Travelling Month...

Last month has made me relaxed yet tired... travelling around Vietnam with the people that came to visit me...just a few common tourist places...

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To take advantage of the public holiday of Vietnam's National Day, we flew to Nha Trang (where Miss Universe was recently held) for a relaxed holiday... it was beautiful beach... :)

view from our hotel

island hopping on these boats, they had really funny entertainments on board

The following weekend, Molly and friend came to visit, our first destination... Sapa. A night's train away... up in the hills, cold, local villages, see how the traditional tribes live...

it's really beautiful real-life

our guide at our hotel

After a 3 nights 2 days trip to Sapa, we reached Hanoi at about 6 a.m., rushed back home to take a quick shower and off we go for a day trip at Halong Bay... taking a 3 hour bumpy road ride to the harbour...

my second trip to Halong Bay.. still alright

Two weeks after Molly went back, mum, Olivia & Matthew came to visit.... our first destinations were to the Pottery and Silk Village. I have not been there myself and thought we could maybe do some shopping there. But to my dismay, we find these 2 places ..erm... boring? yea, kinda... didn't really have anything to buy...
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The next day, we went to Hoa Lu Tam Coc (Halong Bay on Land)... a 2 hour bumpy road ride from Hanoi...

we sat on these 'sampans' and went around the lake

a visit to the Hanoi Museum of Ethnology the next day

After a day's tour around Hanoi, the next day it was Halong Bay... (AGAIN for me...)

my third visit to Halong Bay... ok.. maybe it's enough for me now

this trip we stayed a night at Catba Island...

Enough of travelling I say, but I guess not... haih.... more to come...