Awesome Life: Awesome Hanoi, Vietnam #2 Hanoi Tour

It was a 3 hours and 20 minutes flight from Kuala Lumpur to Hanoi. We reached Noi Bai International Airport around 8.50am following Vietnam's time.

Noi Bai International Airport

After going through the immigration, we went to pick up our luggage. We waited at the "sushi bar" for our "sushi" for almost an hour. At the end, only we realised that we went to the wrong luggage pick-up counter.

Without wasting any time, we went out to the arrival hall to look for people to pick us up provided by the hostel. Maybe we were late and the person was gone, so we tried to call the hostel. We waited for another 15 minutes and finally got someone to pick us up. It was a long way from the airport to Old Quarters, where our hostel is located.

By the time we reached there, our tour guide was already there waiting for us. Soon after we settled the bookings and payments, we started our tour in Hanoi. We first went to the Water Puppet Theater to buy show tickets. Then, we had lunch. After lunch, we visited Temple of Literature. It was around 20 minutes walk from the hostel. After that, we went to Maison Centrale, the Hao Lu prison. We walked for the whole journey under the hot sun. Around 5pm, we went back to Old Quarters. We saw the famous St. Joseph's Cathedral and had a chilling break with iced lemon tea. Linh introduced a place to buy coffee to us before she left.

Ms Linh, from Hanoi Free Tour Guide.

Our lunch, bun thang.

Banh mi. Bought it on the way to Temple of Literature. Very crispy.

Temple of Literature.

Maison Centrale, also known as Hoa Lu Prison. Built by French.

St. Joseph's Cathedral.

Iced lemon tea.

Hanoi city tour took us around 6 hours. We ended the tour at 5pm. After a long day travelling and walking, we took a nice shower in Central Backpackers Hostel. We had our dinner before preparing ourselves for the next journey to Sapa.