Yeah! We made it! Roadwarriors 6; SE Asia has official started!
We've just arrived at our very nice hotel here in Hanoi after a pretty decent 3.5 hour flight, and a swift, horn-honking-filled ride though the rice fields of outer Hanoi into the throbbing, moped filled streets of Hanoi city itself.
We left my place in Hougang, being given a ride by my good mate Guy, (whom I should have taken a photo of... Sorry Guy!) in his large Mercedes van, out to Terminal 3, where another good mate, Todd, was waiting to snap a few pix of us as we headed off to the plane, having successfully checked our bikes in.
Once we landed here in Hanoi, our hotel had a driver waiting to take us on the 35 minute drive into the city.
Even though I had experienced it before, the horn use and swarming, overloaded mopeds was still a sight to marvel at, and from Toms comments, being a first for him, it was blowing his mind!
So now we are happily chilling in our room, having had the very nice, very helpful hotel staff check us in... (it seems that we are the last expected guest for the night, and were being expected with some anticipation too... The word about the 2 crazy westerners with bicycles is out already it appears!).... So I am doing this update, and Tom is turfing through all his gear trying to find the special safe place he put his pocket knife... So far, it's still AWOL, but given that we don't have that much stuff to begin with, it can't be too far...
Once we are washed up and ready to roll, (& Tom has located his knifey) it's time for RWT to experience the sweaty nightlife streets of Hanoi, and the awesome street food it has to offer... A local Auntie, squatting on the pavement over the street from the hotel has already grinned a toothless grin at us, and beckoned me over to see the hot vegetable and mystery-meat noodles she has to sell... And I'm pretty tempted... It smelt darn tasty! I reckon the chicken noodles 2 streets over that we've been recommended by the reception staff might be more to Toms liking though, so that's where we are off to soon...
More to come.
RWK.
Out!
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Location:Hanoi, Vietnam
