After a long bus ride from Cao Bang (9 hours), we arrived to the hustle and bustle city of Hanoi.
A mass of motorbikes swarms through the tangled web of streets in the old quarter, where the cheap guest houses nestled between narrow alleys with many people.
We spent about 1.5 days in the capital of Vietnam, that was more than enough for us to run away without turning back, in other words - we did not like this place at all !
The people were the main reason for our decision not to come back here if it is possible, Some of them were very aggressive, some of them were noisy. At our first hour in Hanoi we were cursed by a teenager boy who didn't accept the fact we are not interested sleeping in his hotel, we were humiliated by an old woman who refused to take our money when we paid the correct amount for a bottle of water and more ...
The Vietnamese people are people with swelled ego. If you insult their ego (and it doesn't take much to do so), they will turn to be very unpleasant.
It won't help you bargaining in street markets because they will not back down from their price and ego, even though we know the price they are asking from us is double the local price.
We had a bad experience in Hanoi, experience we didn't feel even in rough India.
But not everything there is so bad, we did meet some of the locals which were nice.
Have fun,
Efrat and Yoni.
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