Hanoi, Vietnam, is a beautiful place where most Vietnamese dynasties have left their imprint, consider one of the main cultural centers of Vietnam. Hanoi have not experience thru wars and time but the city has many interesting cultural and historic monuments influences by Chinese and French. There are bursting with people, fascinating scenes, and rich with cultural. Hanoi, a chosen place for me to involve myself in the cultural and also intend to free my soul from hectic life with the good geography surrounding. In the city, the sculpting of the architecture of Chinese and French which influences by Chinese and French which give you the experiences of mixture of both Asia and Western country in one place. Local people, discover the way their living, what they do for living, how hardworking for them to work for the sake of living. The city are very busy and bustle with motorcycle and also the sound of “horning” as well known. Every night, you can see their local people are sitting at the road side and enjoy their foods and beverage with a group of friends, family. Despite of the hard hectic life in the city, Vietnamese manage to work-life balance in certain circumstances. The moment of gratituition reflect on the life. The locals are friendly and helpful, communicate yes is hard there but they are willing to lead you to the destinations so not to worry if you lost the way, you might can get some unexpected and that will be the surprise for you.
Since i was there, definitely I won’t miss the chance to visit to Halong Bay. Halong bay has play an important part in term of culture and history of Vietnam. It is also known as Vinh Ha Long, means “Bays of the Descending Dragons. There are approximately 2000 small islands around there with different form surroundings.” These island have been there hundreds of years ago which make the Halong Bay so stunning. There are some activities which is arranged by the cruise. You will be visit the surprise caves where you can see how the limestone forms. Plus, you will be visit to Titop beach. You can choose to swim or climb up the mountain 400 stairs to enjoy the view of Halong. It is really worth to climb and you will get an extreme stunning view in return. Upon visitation to the fishing village, there are floating house in the water where you can see family with 4-5 people stay in one small house. In this small house, you can see how the family bonds togather, which is so sweet of them. However, government have remove most of the floating house to the land in order to improve in their community but there are still houses are remains at there for tourism purpose. I have approached to the local community who are rowing the boat on the motives on rather to stay in the floating house instead of proper house in the mainland. They responsed they prefer to not to change the environment afterall fishing is their main living since decades.
Of course, staying overnight in the cruise is the best options to enjoy the amazing of Halong Bay to the maximum of life. The peace, tranquility, calm that able to brings you away from normal routines. Your soul, will recite what you have been in your life and discover what you would like to be in future. Morning Tai Chi is included in the cruise too. Imagine the slow Tai Chi with the breezy wind and the islands surrounding the cruise, how refreshing it was that boost the day. Night in the cruise, not to mentioned, look out to the sky, you can see glittering star and there come all the thought of your inner self. The thought of freedom that spark you away, the thought of searching for the long lost passion in your life, the thought of improvise the life to be the person you wanna be.
-“All of us have passion in our life which is submerge deep inside our heart and mind, in order to discover, we have to go through journey” –
About the author
I am a person who like to travel and prefer to see natural things. Explore more places, experience the locals cultural is my main objective of traveling. Capturing the beautiful world with my eyes, totally get caught in the beautiful places, treasure myself during the journey so that the anticipation of pursuit on my life will always spark.
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