Friday, April 8, 2011

VIETNAM TRIP 2011

Is it better to wait 6hours on hard plastic seats in Ho Chi Minh domestic terminal while they find a plane that works or travel on a broken plane?
So many hours on we arrive in Hanoi where a trusty driver has also waited many hours to pick us up and delivers us wear
y and worn to our hotel.



After my drug induced deep slumber we head off to one of our favourite cafes for brunch.


Decide to walk off our weariness with a 10 km trudge around Ho Kiem Lake and some areas close to the river we rarely visit.
Our ambling brings us to the Hanoi Museum of History that has an exhibition of old gold treasures from the Nguyen Dynasty rarely seen.



Like these boots and crowns




So museum closes and they push us out so off we go again and come upon the opera house.
Hey there is a ballet tonight directed by a French coreographer so why not.
We bought tickets with our own box seat. Very flashy!! also a bit squishy.
The Hanoi Opera house is quite lovely in that old fashioned way.










I liked all the costumes as they were traditional to Vietnamese culture but I do have trouble interpreting dance story lines but was assisted with a programme found at the end of the night.

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