Sunday, December 3, 2017

hanoi: city of the rising dragon (and other places)

Back after (almost) one year! I can't believe it's December already – 2017 has been a blur for the most part, it being my first year in JC (probably why I had 0 time and 0 inclination to blog about anything HAHA). So many things happened in 2017, it was hard keeping track of things at times welp but I'll try to do a recap of sorts so I can look back at it in the future and remember the events. Also, it's been more than 1 year since our trip to California! – of which I've only blogged about San Francisco rip cheers to procrastinating I think that will be a side project for now HAHA I need to slowly recall the sequence of events bless me

Anyway, enough rambling for now I think you get the idea that I'm a big time procrastinator welp but I decided that our recent trip to Hanoi, Vietnam was worth writing about and I want to write all of it down before it fades into memory (which also means everything is forgotten rip).

Day 1 – November 28, Tuesday
Touched down in the afternoon at Noi Bai International Airport after a 3 hour flight, and proceeded to take a 30 min ride through Hanoi to our hotel in the Old Quarters. We were pretty hungry so we took a short walk from our hotel to New Day restaurant (as recommended by the hotel staff) and ate a shit ton of food meme #fatlife but it was only 23 bucks for 6 dishes (which probably would have cost twice as much in our expensive hometown of Singapore) Didn't take any pictures of the food because we were too hungry but here's the address:
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New Day Restaurant
72 Mã Mây, Hàng Buồm, Hoàn Kiếm, Hoàn Kiếm Hà Nội, Vietnam


Since we weren't attached to any tour group and didn't have any plans for that day, we decided to take a leisurely stroll around the Old Quarters and French Quarters with a few landmarks in mind.