A trip to Hanoi, Vietnam

I have been to Hanoi, Vietnam on end of February, spending 44days business trip in Hanoi.

Hanoi, capital of Vietnam but the development here are still consider slow. I couldn't see any sophiscated shopping center, can't even find any Pizzahut or Mcdonal here. But KFC still able to penetrate to this peace and old city. I found only 2 KFC at whole Hanoi city.

One thing i must recommend is the Vietnamese Coffee.....

Traditional Vietnamese Coffee

This is how the coffee looks like

Other than coffee, let's see some famous Vietnam local food:
1st picture is the "spring roll" and the 2nd is the fried prawn

Besides the food, let' s see how is the town of Hanoi~

Hoem Kien Lake (sword returning)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoan_Kiem

One of the Landmark of Hanoi City (day time)

One of the Landmark of Hanoi City (night time)

one of the 36 old town street

Halong Bay, another city near Hanoi. Most of people would say, go Hanoi, cannot missed out Halong Bay. The distance between Hanoi and Halong Bay is just around 170Km, but it took me 3.5hours to reach Halong Bay from Hanoi! What's wrong? I just can see the infrastructure in Hanoi need to be get a better development. Their so-called Highway would be bah lia than Jalan Mersing. =_='''. You can see the people ride their bicycle or motorcycle on "highway" , the amazing thing is: Have seen that people can use their motorcycle to bring a cow? can you imagine how the pig can be "ride" on the motorcyble? can you see around 200 hat are stack and bring on bicycle? Too bad i couldn't catch the chance to capture the photos.

Well, here we come the Halong Bay. One of the World Heritage listed by UNESCO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_Long_Bay

Supposingly i shall post out the blog when i came back from Hanoi, but always couldn't find the mood to blog it out. Well, it's a special feeling now. I'm posting this blog when i'm now in Jakarta.