our 2nd day at Hanoi, we visited the major places of interest. The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology where we learnt about the various ethnic groups in Vietnam & the Temple of Literature where Vietnamese offered prayers to Confucius and the many other great teachers. Enter!
Liz, someone from a club we managed to befriend from Couchsurfing.org, was our guide for the day. Without him, we would be cabbing instead of taking the public bus which cost us 30cents.
Liz said that these turtles bring goodluck to our academia. so there we are touching its head and mumbling, high gpa high gpa. i just checked my grades, i am finally a 3.20 zunzun, a high merit. cum laude, byebye.
that night we were supposed to have a home dinner at one of the club member's house, but due to some miscommunication, it was cancelled and neither us nor Liz knew about it. (Due to unforeseen circumstances, we also didnt manage to go to the mausoleum nor the HCM musuem.) We waited at the hotel lobby for 45mins or so, till we got news. we decide to head out for a meal. I've learnt that it is important to have a good guidebook which does good recommendation for food, else we will always be just eating pho or other familiar food. or just places with English Menu (which tends to be more expensive most of the time). That night, we ate at a road side stall for the 1st time, eating this plate of fried fritters. the key to getting the best experience is to watch the locals, we watched the local dip their fritters into this bowl of sauce before eating and we followed suit. YUM =) (*pictures should be with fi)
how things look like
this is how the public bus looks like. there is a driver and ticket officer on duty. so you get on the bus and the ticket officer will approach u so that u can buy the tickets from them.
this is how the policemen look like. very communist. and Vietnam is a relatively safe country, you see these policemen often especially at places of interest. They have their own platform thingy that they stand on.
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