Traffic wherever you are is nothing like it is here
I promise...
16.04.2007
We arrived savely in Ha Noi yesterday afternoon. Our taxi ride from the airport to the hotel (Golden Sun Hotel) was exciting to say the least. Closer to the airport, it was interesting to see stray cows and big bulls all over the place - some were being led by a man or woman on a trail near the road, others were just wherever they chose to be. As we got closer to Ha Noi, traffic became crazy. The streets are FULL of cars, motorbikes, and bicycles - all swerving around each other, seemingly in chaos, yet nobody was killed. Everybody, aside from the bicyclists - who are not riding sleek road bikes, but rather just ordinary bikes - uses their horns excessively. It is the craziest thing I've seen. The very very few traffic lights are ignored by at least half of the road population, and lanes are non-existent. We tried to take pictures, but pictures couldn't do justice to that scene.
Today, we will visit Halong Bay. It will be an all day affair. We will write about that later, I'm sure.
And, I'll just mention that our last night in Bangkok, we saw a traditional Thai puppet theater production. The previous night, Amy and I went to the night market and got hungry. We, unknowingly, decided to eat at the place where these productions take place and Amy happened to win tickets to a show (900 baht/$30 dollar value). We waffled about going because, come on, its puppets, but we went, and it was spectacular.
Ok - there's plenty more to write, but its time to eat some pho.
what's pho?
find some kind native person to hold your hands when you cross the street - or better yet, stay on one side of the street.
16.04.2007 by chris'smom