JaMi & BB - Hanoi Trip 2009, Day 4

Day 4, 29/07/09, Very much like day2, had our bf at hotel, same food. Nothing special to share.

8 something, the tour guide reach our hotel to pick us up. The whole van is cater for us only. We leave Old quarter (old quarter is a place in hanoi, means old town), to Duong Lam village. It's abt 2hours drive too... i think it is not tat far just they dun have a highway.

Leaving the noisy Hanoi, lotsa motobike everywhere, they honk every second. This gimme a feeling, to survive here, u need to make sure ur honk is working, ur brake is working, u can forget about ur signal light. But there also cute stuff over here, their motor seat is LV pattern one leh...mai siao siao!

This is so called 5stars hotel, Horizon!

When we are on our way, we saw ppl selling BBQ pork at the road side...call "Thit Cho"...wait wait wait a moment...it dun look like a suckling pig to me, its a dog! They are selling dog meat! I felt so upset after see those stalls. There are plenty of stalls selling. Ma de, how can u eat man's best friend? How can u kill ur best friend? I really dunno wat to say la... just plain upset!

We reach Duong Lam Village. Tour guide is buying entrance ticket. He is better, he explain a lot of things to us, vietnam stuff, halong bay stuff, make us more clearer!

We started of with visiting Mong Phu Temple. But all of us had a quick visit inside, bcos we need to atttend nature call, wee-wee time. So, we ask the tour guide bring us to WC! He bring us goto a nursery school...borrow WC...hahahah

The kiddies there were cute. They were shocked in the beggining cos new faces! But then, after some body language, eye contact...they start to close to you. I took their picture and show it back to them, they seems very happy abt it...

Then, we go MIA Pagoda. It was built in 1632, tat was 300+years ago. So old already. The still preserve until now. The pagoda was built by Tran Dynasty.

Inside here there are lotsa of God patung patung. Even found 18 loh hon here!

Then we come to a community hall in Duong Lam Village. This is where ppl gathered last time. Built using wood... There is a ah pek jaga this place, i read the chinese word in the hall, sounds same. He kept showing me all the readings, ask me look there, look here... so kind of him!

Ah pek is posing for me...hahahaha...thanks la!

Then, another highllight is, 300 year old tree and 200 year old gate!

It's raining in the morning. Picture is cloudy. Anyway, dun care, I have PS ma...wat oso can do one. This is our personal van la... drive us everywhere in Duong Lam village.

Then, we come to a old old house which >200years old and still well maintain. They are doing soya sauce business. This is where we going to have lunch here. Local vietnamese food.

The boss and his in-progress soya sauce making. Fil is trying to make too...hahaha



This is the raw material - soya.

After visiting, tour guide bring us around to show us some ancient house, and beautiful scenery here.

The place is so relaxing, back to kampung kampung. Pure and natural kampung. So peaceful. I am so crazy taking photos on the houses, windows, doors...etc. Real madness.

Guess wat r those? it's actually a padi been process. It can use to start fire. Burning purpose!

Beautiful village~untouched!

Then, here come the oldest house. They even got certificate for that. More than 300 years! Japanese goverment got help them out, help them to preserve the house. Sponsoring them... So good, like tat baru can keep the culture ma!

We back to the soya sauce house to have our lunch. The owner of the house is cooking in the kitchen, i took the opportunity to pay a visit. But then i think is wrong move. Better not to see, i guess i will enjoy the food more...Hahahaha....u know wat i mean?

Tell u wat? i still can eat 2 bowl of rice...bcos the soya sauce is so so so nice...

We have 2 type of veges, kangkung fried and kangkung boiled, BBQ pork, roasted chicken, cooked pork, and clear vege soup. It's yummy yummy! Thinking to buy the soya sauce back but after seeing the process making, i scared... sumore i see the bottle...it was recycled... i even scared. Too bad... i am a packaging guy, i talk abt packaging, if packaging not nice then soli la!

After eat full full liao, we continue to visit temple, yeah temple again. U r rite, temple temple and temple...

Phung Hung temple...

Ngo Quyen temple...

These 2 local hero lead to fight against invation from China. They protected their country. So, ppl built temple to worship them for their Heroness!

Get up and get down the van very tiring, we got tired and nothing much to see liao. We ask the tour guide send us back.

We stopped to chk out fruits while on the way back. Much expensive...of cos la...we go with tourist van...sure kena slash one ma. But we did not buy la.



We saw a lot of board with "SUA" on it, so we ask the tour guide wat is it, he told us is cow's milk. Here famous one. Ask us whether wanna try or not. We tried...

This is goat milk yogurt... i tell u...BESSSSSSST! So smooth, am sure u can get it else where!

The cow's milk? BESSSSSSTEST! I dun like milk one but then after i sip...i ordered my own glass...hahahah...just imagine how good?!

After satisfying our stomach...we went back hotel straight. Tired but fun...

Dinner, we go back to the Day 1 dinner place located in Ha May Road #72. Serve good steamboat and local food.

Brought some beers and have a little chat and drinking session. Beer is cheap here. Heineken is abt RM3.00 per can. Their own brand Bia Hoi Hanoi only RM1.50 per can.

Lee Wen pretend to be drunk...

By the way, about our complaint on the halong bay trip, the agent suppose to meet us up but din turn up at last. Tell us tat got accident and cannot come. The hotel in charge person only dun dare to come oso, he only tell us he manage to give discount, USD50/pax...WTF?! still higher than USD45... after talking and talking, it seems we can't go nowhere, we settle at USD50/pax. Taking this as learning. And also we threathen him that we will complaint to your tourism board! He said OK! Ma de! since like tat...ok lorrrr.

After our complaint session, we settle the hotel & tour bill. This enable us to chk out faster tomolo morning cos our flight is in the morning. I notice a paper on the counter, which is from another tourist, complaining halong bay trip as well. Without the fella notice, i took a picture and read on it. It's almost the same complaint like us... u die liao la...we got accompany!

I will give u a full detail report plus prove...to you tourism board... u guys wait la... conned us larrr...

So fast our last nite in Vietnam... a 5d4n holiday come to an end.