Good flight to Hanoi with Vietnam Airways.
Arriv ed as sun was setting so some nice sky colours on drive in to hotel on new modern road. Not so many cars but lots of motorbikes of course especially as we got into city. Little children (2/3 years) sitting/standing on bike seats between their parents, older ones clinging on – guess they have grown up on these bikes. Horns going constantly.
People busy in market gardens/fields in countryside areas on way into city and into city area could see some setting up night market stalls, zooming about on bikes or sitting chatting along streets/roadside verges as Sunday afternoon.
Array of houses. Many 2-3 stories high – narrow, no doubt maximising space and land. As we flew in could also see houses several stories high, clustered together in rural areas with surrounding land being utilised.
Lots of mist in the distance due to recent rain moisture and humidity.
Lovely Vietnamese food for dinner.

First photos from Hanoi

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