Hue og Hanoi

Jeg ved godt, at det er ved at vaere et godt stykke tid siden, jeg har skrevet, saa bliver vist nodt til at gore det af flere omgange!
Men for at starte hvor jeg sluttede sidst, saa var jeg helt vild med Hoi An, og det toj jeg fik syet blev bare saa flot! Jeg tog ogsaa paa en tur til My Son templerne, som er velbevarede ruiner af flere tusinde aar gamle templer. Det var virkelig interessant at se! For Vietnam krigen (eller the American war som de kaldte det i Vietnam) har der aabentbart varet endnu flere templer, for man kunne se store bombekrater efter de bomber amerikanerne smed og odelagde mange templer.
Anna, som er den svenske pige jeg modte i Dalat, og jeg kom super godt ud af det og besluttede at rejse videre sammen. Men eftersom jeg skulle flyve fra Hue til Hanoi, og hun skulle kore i bus, splittede vi i Hoi An og modtes saa igen i Hanoi. Men for Hanoi havde jeg en dag i Hue. Det er en gammel kejserby, som jeg havde hort skulle vaere rigtig flot, men jeg maa aerlig talt indromme, at jeg ikke var imponeret! The Perfume River som lober igennem byen var super flot, men ellers var det mest spaendende, at jeg korte i cyklo for forste gang:-) Det var til gengaeld en oplevelse. Trafikken i Vietnam var helt sindsyg, saa ogsaa i cykloen maatte jeg nogen gange bare lukke ojnene og haabe paa det bedste! Men ellers er det en super sjov maade at komme omkring paa, fordi det gaar stille og roligt og man har tid til at se ting undervejs.
Fredag aften ankom jeg saa til Hanoi, som sammenlignet med Ho Chi Minh City var meget stille og rolig! Bare det at komme ud af lufthavnen var rent faktisk en behagelig oplevelse! I Ho Chi Minh er det et helvede at faa fat i sin bagage, da der bare staar en mand i den ene ende af bagage baandet og hiver taskerne af og smider dem i en stor bunke, og naar man saa endelig kommer ud af lufthavnen bliver man modt af kaempe menneskemaengder og overfaldet af taxa chafforer, der gor deres bedste for at udnytte, at du lige er kommet og tage roven paa dig! Ikke en behagelig oplevelse! I Hanoi til gengaeld faar man nemt bagagen og kan gaa lige ud af terminalen og ud i en shuttelbus, som tager dig til dit hotel for 3 dollars! Og ikke en gang var der nogen, der raabte af mig! Lordag morgen kom Anna saa, og vi brugte de forste par dage paa at gaa paa opdagelse i the Old Quarters smaa butikker, drikke kaffe og saa var vi selvfolgelig ogsaa paa lidt sightseeing:-) Som I kan se paa billederne var vejret ikke helt perfekt, saa den forste dag maatte vi bryde sammen og kobe et regnslg hver, saa vi rendte rundt hele formiddagen og legede smolfer i vores blaa regnslag:-) Sondag aften tog vi saa paa en 2 dage/3 naetter tur til Sapa, som er en helt fantastisk bjergregion mellem Vietnam og Kina, men det maa jeg skrive om naeste gang:-)

I know that it has been a while since I have updated my blog last, so I think that I might have to do a couple of posts to get up to date!
I think that I'll just start were i finished last time. I absolutely loved Hoi An, and the clothes that I had tailor made there turned out really well! I also went on a trip to the My Son Temples, which are really well kept ruins of temples that are many 1000 years old. It was really interesting to see! Before the Vietnam war (or the American war as the Vietnamise call it) there were more temples but many of them were ruined by bombs, and some places you could still se the bomb craters.
Anna, who is the Swedish girl that I met in Dalat, and I had a lot of fun together so we decided to travel on together. But because I was flying from Hue to Hanoi and she was taking the bus we split up in Hoi An, and I had a day in Hue before flying to Hanoi. Hue is an old emperor city, and I had heard that it was suppose to be really interesting, but I have to admit that I wasn't impressed! The Perfume River that runs through the city was beautiful but other then that the most interesting thing was that I rode in a cyklo for the first time! That on the other hand was quite the experience! The trafic in Vietnam is crazy, so like on the bus I just sometimes had to close my eyes and hope for the best! But other than that it is a fun way to get around, because you have time to see things along the way.
Friday night I arrived in Hanoi, which compared to Ho Chi Minh were nice and quite. Just getting out of the airport was actually a pleasant experience! In Ho Chi Minh getting your bag was a nightmare, because a guy just stood at one end and pulled all the bags of the machine and into a big pile! And when you finally managed to find your bag and get out of the airport, you were met by huge amount of people and taxi drivers trying to benefit from the fact that you had just come of the plane and pretty much screw you over! Not fun! In Hanoi however getting your luggage was easy, and when I walk out of the terminal I could get straight in a shuttel bus that took me to my hotel for 3 dollars! And not once did anybody yell at me! Wonderful:-) Saturday morning Anna arrived and we spent the 2 first days walking around the Old Quarter discovering all the small shops, having lots of coffee, and of course doing a bit of sightseeing:-) As you can see in the pictures the weather could have been better, so the on the first day we had to break down and get disposable raincoats, beacuse we were so use to the sun that we had both forgotten to bring our own! As you can see on the pictures we looked very charming in our bright blue rain covers! Sunday night we went on a 2 day/3 night trip to Sapa, which is a beautiful mountain region between Vietnam and China, but I'll have to write about that in my next blog entry:-)