Hanoi - Hoi An

Oh my god Vietnam!!!

On friday 5th, I left Sapa in the morning after a last nice evening at "the Hmong sister's bar".
It's the only place where Hmongs are allowed to enter. It's funny to see the girls wearing traditional clothes, drinking beer with the occidentals while listening to loud pop music. Those girls are seriously crazy, in a good way indeed.
They are very nice people, cheerful, glad to show their culture, the way they work and their way of living. Really interesting place. So I took the train, for about 12 hours road. This woman sitting next to me kept buying me food, one very nice guy who sat next to me at some point also, he was reading my hands line and said it was "good good!" :) People are so nice. I arrived around 9 pm, went directly to meet Mateusz in the center, we had a couple of beers with his collegue Daren, and moved to see other friend.
The next day we had a walk along the river, it was so nice. So peaceful walking on the sand, with fiels around the dryed river, then we went to the lake, also so peaceful, another side of Hanoi. Claire, a friend, met with us and then we met a Couchsurfer, Vincent which is in love with Poland and speaks polish, and apparently we have some friends in common in Warsaw: such a small world! After a lot of dancing, we went back to Maté's place.
Next day we just chilled out. I went on Monday to the women museum, had a walk, a lot of good vietnamese coffee and spring rolls (in the market they were so fresh and so good!) I took a sleeping bus on a late afternoon to Hoi An.
We stopped in the morning for breakfast, there some woman had this collection of coins from all over the world. She had no money from Poland and she was so glad when I gave her 20 groszy!:)
I finally arrived around 5pm after a 3 hours stop in Hué, for the memories :)
Hoi An is amazing! I went to eat a "Pho" in the street, it was so good I had a "Lau Cau" which was also very good. That's where I met Rien (pronouced Ryan) a US citizen with whom I spent so much time with. Such a great body. We had some drinks while debating about movies and fighting with a giant rat ;)
On wednesday I rented a bike, went to the beach and went swimming but the weather was quite bad, not raining but very cloudy and windy, the lifeguard kept me from swimming. I just went back to the city and met Rien. We took the bike to another beach, visited the Japonese tomb in the middle of the ricefield, after a small walk on the sand, we went to the best restaurant near Cau Dai. We had a steamed crab with Tamarin sauce which was deliciously norgasmic. So good!!!

The next day we met near the market, where I just had a pedicure and a hair removal with strings! So weird... but it works! We went on the other side of the river, had shopping, had a rest and had dinner later near the river but on the city's side, and decided to go back to the "rat's place". There, we had some Hanoi vodka (big big, cheap cheap for us!) and met the best canadian couple: Charissa and Kieran. All together we end up going to this bar on the beach, we had a swim which was awesome, then we realised there was a pool in the bar: I enjoyed it two times in betweem some dancing. It was a great night! I went to bed around 6am and had to wake up at 10 for my bus: I so didn't want to leave, but they wouldn't change my ticket. So now, I'm in Quy Nhon, small city near the sea encercled with mountains. It's gorgeous, tomorrow I'm sure I will have a great day, trekking and swimming, it's time for me to enjoy the beach!!!