Fly into Hanoi over wooded mountains shrouded in clouds, rice paddies, and villages of houses that the rice paddies are centered around. I forego the taxi hawkers for a local bus that goes down a one-lane-road in both directions. The bus is really quiet even though it's full of people. It is also air-conditioned, which is nice. The weather is humid but doesn't really feel that different or worse than the humidity in Seoul.
There are a lot of people riding bicycles along the street wearing straw conical hats. There is a lot of water near the road in the form of ponds and rivers. This area seems really green and fertile. The water looks clean.
Soon, businesses start to become visible on both sides of the road. They look like really, big multi-storey houses. There is also a lot of space at least until I get into Hanoi city, which is refreshing after the urban sprawl of Seoul. Lots of motorcycles and lots of honking that other riders don't really seem to be responsive to. Soon, we enter Hanoi, and I am dropped off near the train station. I wasn't sure I had boarded the right bus, but apparently I did.
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