I woke up at Cuc Phoung National Park to the sound of gibbon calls.\u00a0 I had such an amazing time there that I didn’t really want to leave.\u00a0 I arranged to get a xe om to Highway one where I picked up a slightly less busy bus than on the way.\u00a0 The locals were still equally amused by me though.<\/p>\n
When I got back to Hanoi I headed to an International Music Festival with Olly and his housemates.\u00a0 It was really good and apparently relatively unusual to have such a thing in Hanoi.\u00a0 This resulted in it being full of ex-pats.\u00a0 We then went onto a party boat until the early hours which was equally entertaining.\u00a0 For some reason I decided that it was a good idea to dance (hmmm, maybe something to do with beer) despite having hideously aching limbs from my treks in the National Park.<\/p>\n
Following on from a long day and a late night Sunday was not particularly productive.\u00a0 Today I was planning to get my visa for Laos but instead went for a leisurely lunch at Koto which is a restaurant set up to assist local young people out of poverty and into hospitality.\u00a0 I then went to the temple of literature with one of Olly’s housemate’s friends who somewhat oddly lives about a mile from me in London.\u00a0 The coincidences keep happening like meeting the girl I met in Nha Trang on the boat as she was staying in the same place as the guy I went for lunch with today.\u00a0 I think that Vietnam, and Hanoi in particular,\u00a0is the place for the three Cs……. Cocktails, cakes and coincidences!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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