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So I'm now in Hanoi. In the last week or so I did:

6 hr bus from Da Lat to Nha Trang, great, cheap hotel overnite in Nha Trang (decent beach, good food/bar scene that I skipped, no waves...lots of paragliding). Pondered trip to Budapest and Krakow, maybe Bratislava.

 

Nite bus from Nha Trang to Hoi An, morning nap and hotel overnite in Hoi An (cute town with neat shops of silk fabrics, ceramics, lamps, carvings, paintings....i bought a tshirt for 1.75 usd, I have three now, so less washing).

 

4 hr bus to Hue, stayed on nite in Hue - not very exciting place. Pondered trip to Istanbul & turkey

 

10 hr train to Ninh Binh one nite, next day Tam Coc, then bus to Hai Phong. Pondered Alaska

 

2 hour hydrofoil to Cat Ba island. 2 nites in Cat Ba

 

4 hr boat ride to mainland (pondered Beijing and great wall of china, and ____ with terra cotta warriors), then 3 hr bus to Hanoi - pondering beating the crap out of the guy sleeping on my arm....like it wasn't hot enough without A/C

 

Now here in Hanoi where I'm happy, fat and comfy. Good internet near my 12 dollar room (which has hbo, cinemax, lots of football - if the a/c worked well i'd be in there all day).

 

Ha Noi is cool already, has a very distinguished feel in the old quarter, but I'm tired of vietnam and will be moving on. So I'll leave indochine soon, maybe for NC, but I guess I'm still open. Not ready for the real world, but ready for something more constructive and a little less transient.

 

 

Done