Day 2 of Hanoi Vietnam

This morning, booked my Halong Bay trip for tomorrow morning. Two days one night on the boat. Unfortunately the temperature is not excellent but at least no rain (or so they say). I also have my train ticket for Sapa, leaving on Tuesday.

As for today, I had my breakfast with the delicious bread. I don't regularly like bread but this bread is excellent! Then went for a nice Vietnamese coffee with condensed hot milk. Again, delicious! Took my day slowly read at the cafe and built up my courage to ride a mototaxi to see the Ho Chi Minh Complex. 20 000 VND for a one-way ride, but the experience is priceless. My legs were shaking (Jo, you know what I mean, my legs shake when I ride on your huge motorcycle). Imagine, on a small moto in the Hanoi traffic. Priceless I tell you! On the way back I was much less nervous and I even took a picture of my driver. Motos are the way to go around here and they are impressive with what can be put on them. Examples of things I've seen on motos: animals, trees, mega surround sound system, food in big quantities and then some. OK, so for my visit at the Ho Chi Minh complex I was one of the rare white people there. A lot of asians especially Vietnamese. Actually, a group of four Vietnamese guys asked if they could take pictures with me?! Not with my camera, but with theirs. As if I'm the attraction. I said yes, they were polite. Other Vietnamese asked me to take pictures of them in front of the Ho Chi Minh statue. From what I heard I basically compare him to Che Guevara for the Cubans.

Gotta go, tonight I'm going to a tourist and expat restaurant to meet up with two American girls. One who lives here and the other one I met on the plane.