After a good feed at the Green Tangerine restaurant and a sedate ride home in a cyclo, had to pinch a fan from reception as aircon had failed.Therefore a sweltering nights sleep! Up early for a sightseeing marathon.The ubiquitous PHO for breakfast with extra chilli (beef soup with rice noodles and spring onions) at 7 am. First of all the Temple of Literature, Hanoi's most revered temple. A calm place to go, it's a confusian sanctuary and Vietnam's oldest univers...

We arrived in Hanoi. Seven hours ahead of GMT here so we've missed out on a nights kip! Got a taxi from the airport easily dispite my panic as I'd cancelled the transfers before we left the UK. Standard $14. The traffic is mental! Never experienced anything quite like this before. People seem to transport anything and everything on their scooters and bicycles- however large! Passed a scooter on the main highway with two huge,4ft Ming style vases strapped to eithe...