The hotel we're staying at have been fantastic with recommendations of cheap local restaurants. We ate at one called Rainbow on our first night here - it's only about 100 metres from our Hotel down the street which makes it a quieter place to enjoy a meal. The cost of dinner there is about half what we were paying in HCMC. On Monday we walked along the street one behind us which is known as Hemp St and has shops selling silk clothing and handicrafts. There are...

We arrived in Hanoi today after a short flight from Ho Chi Minh City. On our last day there we explored some more of the area near our hotel and found a local market and small supermarket type shops. We also walked down by the waterfront and were drenched with perspiration by the time we got back. In Hanoi we are staying at a small hotel called the Hanoi Old Centre which is very close to Hoan Kiem Lake and we have a view of this from our room which is very large...