Vietnam Visa Run, Hanoi, November 2013

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^^
Push the green for go and push red for stop. Not a flash idea though as it come on with a vengence and could tear one another arsehole.

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There's plenty of money around in Hanoi and many of the locals enjoy the good life.
There was one tosser cruising the streets in his Rolls Royce, I failed to nail the picture unfortunately. Seen him a few times.

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We where legging it back to the lake when we come across this Micro Brewery, Jesus this sent me into a spin.

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Enter through the front doors and the two stills are staring at you.

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Up the stairs and settle in for a massive session. It was a tad early unfortunately.
The draught beer worked out around 10 baht a glass. Dangerous that innit.

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Pushing the little fella over the train tracks.

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Street vendor doing her thing amongst the madness of the roads.

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This guy has two slabs of beer, a carton of coke and a heap of water on his scooter.
He then set of into the traffic with one handle on the throttle. Did not tie anything down Seen another dude with a mattress tied on the back of his scooter.

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Plenty of high end goods in Hanoi, there not just advertised in high end shops. Stuff jumps out at you from old stores. This hole in the wall shop was full of high end bikes.

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Plenty of nice little motors getting around as well.

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A very ancient old tree this one.

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Interesting looking shop.

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Many shops dealing in LED's. Quite a sight at night time when they all fire up.

[chassamui]

You've crammed loads of humanity in there Terry. That's what makes a good travel thread for me. The people are the stars of the show.

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Yes Well.

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Yep, I'm always up for interaction with the locals. Go out of my way to make some sort of contact with them.

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Here we have a 5 way intersection with no traffic control what so ever. Absolutely brilliant entertainment just watching the madness. Never seen an accident though.
Last time I was there I did though, two bikes collided and one guy smashed his head into the pavement and offed right in front of us. Accidents do happen.

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The faceless men. Thai-Visa Mods.

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Still many poor people in Hanoi. This is the way they boil the water for a cup of tea.

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Yes well, they do have some funny stuff in Vietnam. It was a funeral house actually.

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Believe it not this was the real deal, what the Vietnamese transport on a push bike is incredible.

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We ended up in this park where this guy was using this remote car. He was a friggin profession and had this thing dancing.

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There's some serious building going on in Hanoi. This is a condo block going up.

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They need a shit load more of these though. Hardly any in the whole friggin place.

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Back in the old town and a meal with some nice looking Viet girls.