About half an hour outside of Hanoi, on route back from Halong Bay, it started to rain but perhaps rain is the wrong word. If drizzle is the word for light rain, what is the word for absolutely bucketing out of the heavens? By the time we got to the Old Quarter we had to step off the bus and into water that came almost to our knee's!! At the office where we were storing our luggage the water was pouring in through the doors covering the entire floor, right to the back, in about 6 inches of water. We were catching the train to Sapa that evening so we only had time for one more tourist stop - The Water Puppet Show (how appropriate). The show was scheduled to run for about an hour but after only 20 minutes we had had enough and left. The music was bad, the singing was worse and the puppetry itself was entertaining for about, oh let's see, 20 minutes. Very miss-able.
The train to Sapa was very comfortable. We had a sleeper cabin for 4 people which we shared with a French-Canadian couple. We decided to splash out and go business class, which was an extra $2 on this 8 hour train ride. It was the most comfortable journey we have taken to date.
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