The Haiphong harbor has numerous long piers stretching for what seems like a mile into the bay. Not too many ships unloading today, Fri Feb 8. but plenty of containers ate stacked along the piers. Haiphong is only two hours from Hanoi so the trip back is just two hours.
Thanks to all the US bombing of this important port, Haiphong now has new broad streets and buildings. ;-)
I capture a few shots from the van window. Tet starts tomorrow,i.e. tomorrow is the last day of the old year and people are still scurrying about getting their peach or cumquat trees.
You can see by what they are wearing that it is still cold here - in the 50s - OK so its relatively cold, compared to the south and where we are going next.
There are live chickens stuffed in these boxes on the back of scooters.
Little ones snuggly bundled between parents may be going to grandmothers house! Father's family that is - Confucianism still holds sway here.
Our guide, Anh, has only been working for Phoenix Cruises for 6 months so she gets to work over Tet, while senior employees go home.
We cross the Red River and are back in Hanoi.
-On the road with Kathryn
Location:Hanoi
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