Hanoi Streets

Nice airconditioned Lobby for us to wait in while our room was still being cleaned

Elegance 2 now known as Elegance Emerald. See how narrow the hotel is. All the buildings in the old quarter are like this. You even see properties in the countryside that are only one room wide. This has to do with the way they tax the land form the olden times. Next door to our hotel on the right of this picture you can just make out the tourist attraction in MaMay street . It was restored in 1999 back to it's original 19th century style where there is a garden on the ground floor between the two downstairs rooms.

These ladies wander the streets of the old quarter. Their baskets are filled with all manner of things. They deliver food to the locals even raw meat. My daughter and I felt the weight of one of them . For tiny little women they can carry a heavy load. 

This is the ultimate Hanoi street food. You see this type of cooking go0ing on all over the old quarter. It was lunch time and the old man had set up a smokey charcoal bbq right opposite our hotel . He had what looked like pieces of marinated meat in the wire basket. Chicke or pork was my guess. Loads of smoke filled the air. The food smelled good but it wasn't worth the risk of me getting sick again as I had already had an episode back in Bangkok.

You can see the little plastic stools all the locals sit on while they eat in the streets. You weren't gonna get me down on one of those fragile looking things. I'd need on for each butt cheek!!