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This entry told you the trip to Vietnam. The author was traveling to Halong then Catba and doing kayak here.

We had seen many pictures of it in magazines and also watched the reports many times in our favourite chanel : Travel and Living - and longing to see and experience directly the beauty of Halong Bay by ourself.

We missed the opportunity to go to Vietnam last Lebaran because we were quite reluctant to book the flight tickets timely.

So we decided that we had to spend our vaction in Vietnam over new year. Two weeks before X’mas we still could book and secure our flights with quite reasonable fares :
by Valuair for  CGK - SIN - CGK and
by TIgerairways for SIN - Hanoi and Saigon - SIN.

We spent one night in Singapore visiting the new VIVO city in Harbor front and hunting some bargains along the orchard the next day.  J got some pairs of shoes - luckily we could ask a friend to take it back home rite away and did not have to carry them over to Vietnam.

We were picked up in Nobai - Hanoi Airport on new years eve evening and it was real cold around 16 C. We really havent thought about the weather beforehand .. and we were not prepared with the rite clothing !

Our Hotel in the Old Quarter recommended us Little Hanoi restaurant for their Vietnamese speciality. So we went directly there and ordered the fried Tuna and some Pho ( what else ? ). And it was so delicious .. or maybe we were just too hungry ( because we did not get any meal during the flight .. )

Afterward we went toward Hoan Kiem Lake and found that the local crowds were gathered around the open stage by the lake to watch the celebration welcoming the new year. Pitily it was bit too cold for us - that we didn’t really enjoy the count down ceremony and other performances. Instead We headed back directly to our hotel after midnight.

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