Maxwells vs The World » Vietnam http://geriandricky.maxwells.net.nz The Travel Blog of Richard and Geraldine Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:47:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Hmong’d http://geriandricky.maxwells.net.nz/2009/05/02/hmongd/ http://geriandricky.maxwells.net.nz/2009/05/02/hmongd/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 15:13:52 +0000 Geri http://geriandricky.maxwells.net.nz/?p=294 Hiya got back from Halong Bay today, (Sapa before that) . blimey those hill people are a pain in the a%%. they wait outside your hotel until you come out then they follow you until you buy something (even if it takes an hour). they even follow you on your walking tour. it was raining when we did our 12km walk down the rice
paddy hills, so having a hill person attached to my hip wasn’t so bad as she helped me on the slippery bits. i did have to buy a bag off her though and i’m sure i overpaid. Sapa was beautiful though, and Halong Bay stunning also.

Zee is in Halong Bay still, doing some rock climbing so Richard and i will do a bit of shopping tomorrow. hopefully, just waiting to find out from travel agent what our baggage allowance is, as we may be cutting it fine due to new shoes etc.

thing is i want to get anything i may need over here as is cheaper than in NZ, at the same time it’s hard spending so much money. oh well i’m sure i’ll get over it. :)

love you, and miss you
off to bed now as is 10pm and i’m tired today. gotta have a shower and do
some washing first.

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yikes, i don’t have a rain coat. worse still i got told by two people it
is warm here. well, the place is covered in fog and cold and i only have shorts and a small polar fleece.

we have tribe people here in the village trying to sell their stuff, but the bad part is they stand outside your hotel all day and when you leave they follow you for km’s until you buy something. i bought a cushion cover that’s not that great. i part traded a t-shirt for it so only had to pay $6 ha, i can picture it now my cream duvet cover will gradually turn blue from the plant dye in the cushion cover.

tonight we go back to Hanoi on the overnight train then off to Halong Bay straight away tomorrow. then hanoi and home

we are having loads of fun, Zee is such a great travel companion, and he says the same about us which is nice. No disagreements

we were thinking winter will be a nice relief after all the heat but now
that we are in the hills and it’s cccooolllldddd maybe the heat isn’t so
bad after all.

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