Backpacking into Indo China

We fly AirAsia into Hanoi in June 2007, we were very satisfied with AirAsia service and price as we did not encounter any problems or delay. As we clear immigration in Hanoi and start looking for the person send by the hostel to pick us up. As this agent handle for many hostel or hotels he was late, but manage to locate us after 20 minutes. While waiting for our pick-up to arrive we went to the moneychanger at the aiport to change US100.00 into Vietnamese Dong 160,000.00. The mini van drove us into Hanoi about one hour from the airport. In the Hanoi old quarter the driver phone the hostel keeper who send a young girl to led us to Tung Trang Hotel at 13 TamThuong Alley, Hang Bong Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi. email: tungtranghotel@yahoo.com Tel No.(84-4) 8 286 267. This hotel were recommended by Leenah and is very lovely done, our room has a belcony overlooking into the alley. After off loading our lugguage we went into the street or look for breakfirst, Vietnamese Pho Bo, their noodle with beef. It cost about US1.00 per bowl and taste delicious. After a hearty breakfirst we walk the streets heading toward Hoan Kiem Lake and also to book the Water Puppet Theatre of the evening show. It is the most recommended show with many visitors prebook for the evening performance. After we had paid for the tickets we take a leisure walk around the lake and the temple build in the middle of the lake. We then walk further north towards the West Lake, one of the big and popularly known lake of Hanoi. The weather was very hot and we are really exhuated from the heat of the afternoon. As all of us were very tire after the early flight from Kuala Lumpur we took a taxi back to the market Hang Da near our hotel for a insight exporation of the local people.