Some pictures of Hanoi

Sorry if some of these are a little blurry!

 This is from our first night in Hanoi, and gives you a little taste of the traffic around town. Motorbike, buses, and people crosscutting all over the place!

This is our friend Nam. He is a friend of our friend from Wisconsin. Getting introduced to him has made a world of difference, we now have a ton of Vietnamese friends that we met through Nam. This is the first night we met up, and a very typical scene around Hanoi. Tiny plastic tables and stools and "fresh beer" which costs around 3,000 VND, and delicious.

 I thought this was funny. A wandering chicken in the middle of random parked motorbikes. Not uncommon to see though!

 This is was a typical street looks like in Hanoi. They're fairly narrow with old trees, and have buildings that can make it look like you're in Europe. With all the people eating Pho on the tiny stools on the sidewalk you are soon reminded that you're in Asia.

This is taken from a rooftop cafe that we like a lot. Here is a view of Hoan Kiem Lake, and the crowd of people gathered by the water happens from time to time, when there is a sighting of the big turtle living in the lake. The turtle is part of a story about a King returning the sword that helped drive out the Chinese in the 15th century, giving it back to the turtle. Hoan Kiem Lake means "Lake of the returned sword."