The Water Puppet Show and 'all-you-can-eat' ice-cream buffet!
November 27, 2007
We spent the next two days wandering around the tailors of Hanoi - nobody had anything made. It turns out that having to much choice really is a bad thing!
I finally bought a pair of jeans for around £50 and I put my life in the hands of a street barber, who proceeded to give me the best, and closest, shave that I’ve ever had! Gaby & I found the REAL Kangaroo Cafe - "the biggest mugs of coffee in Hanoi" - and decided to book our trip to SaPa through them. (Sometimes you just get a 'good feeling' about somewhere and that definitely applied here.) It cost us US$115 for four nights - two overnight train journeys, one night 'home-stay' and one night in a hotel - which meant that we’d be arriving back in Hanoi the day before we were due to fly back to Thailand.
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For our last night in Hanoi as a 'foursome', Andi, Michelle, Gaby & I attended the Thang Long Water Puppet Show. A few minutes in and I was wondering "What the hell have I let myself in for?" However, I was quickly won over and thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended for a night out in Hanoi!
After the performance had finished Gaby noticed an advertisement for an 'all-you-can-eat' ice-cream buffet at the nearby Papa Joe’s for only 25,000VND. So that was 'supper' decided! I had eaten three bowls of ice-cream - I can recommend the green sticky rice and the coconut flavours! - before I started to feel a little sick and stopped.
I finally bought a pair of jeans for around £50 and I put my life in the hands of a street barber, who proceeded to give me the best, and closest, shave that I’ve ever had! Gaby & I found the REAL Kangaroo Cafe - "the biggest mugs of coffee in Hanoi" - and decided to book our trip to SaPa through them. (Sometimes you just get a 'good feeling' about somewhere and that definitely applied here.) It cost us US$115 for four nights - two overnight train journeys, one night 'home-stay' and one night in a hotel - which meant that we’d be arriving back in Hanoi the day before we were due to fly back to Thailand.
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For our last night in Hanoi as a 'foursome', Andi, Michelle, Gaby & I attended the Thang Long Water Puppet Show. A few minutes in and I was wondering "What the hell have I let myself in for?" However, I was quickly won over and thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended for a night out in Hanoi!
After the performance had finished Gaby noticed an advertisement for an 'all-you-can-eat' ice-cream buffet at the nearby Papa Joe’s for only 25,000VND. So that was 'supper' decided! I had eaten three bowls of ice-cream - I can recommend the green sticky rice and the coconut flavours! - before I started to feel a little sick and stopped.
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