Lunch brought us to Minh Chay Vegan Restaurant. My only desire for my third and last meal in Hanoi/Vietnam was Phở. Since our breakfast was included in our hotel, it meant I only had lunch to make sure I got to eat some. Minh Chay Vegan Restaurant caught our eye and we found ourselves upstairs taking [...]
After breakfast where we said hello and goodbye to some of the people on tour we went out to run errands. We looked at the nearby souvenir shops, people who needed passport photos had their photos taken. I sat on the steps of a camera shop and wrote postcards to send home and then ducked [...]
After meeting the rest of our tour (in a quick "...and this is everyone, everyone...") We headed out to dinner. We walked up to the third floor where a large table was set out and reserved for us. The other people on our tour warned me not to expect food to come fast or at [...]
For US citizens (and several other nationalities) going to Vietnam requires a visa. Some places you can just do all the visa work at the airport, other places require you to get a letter of approval before hand. Vietnam is one of those. Before Vietnam I'd really only done one intense visa process and it [...]
