#Visit to Museum of Ethnology

Together with V.E.O vice president and students from British Council :)

Museum of Ethnology

Met some vietnam little girls there who are soooo friendlyyyy! :D

 Some exhibitions in the museum that display the unique culture of Viet and many other ethnic groups in Vietnam included their living tools, costume, traditional occasion, house design and more. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam, each of this ethnic groups has their own astonish cultures

There is one art gallery in the museum which I think it was pretty cool. There are some life gallery of different ethnic groups in a black room.

Outside of the museum, there is some show room of the traditional houses of different ethnic groups. 

This is the tomb. They gathered all the dead body in the tomb. After few years, they will have the celebration in front of this tomb as the blessings for the dead people who already reincarnated to the other world. 

This is the stilt house of Bana in Vietnam. 

& there is a long house in vietnam as well. 

After we visited the museum, we continue our journey to Bah Trang (Pottery Village) 

Spontaneously photo in the antiquate dam when we were on our way to take bus to Bah Trang. To go to Bah Trang, we took bus in Long Bien Bus Stop, which is no 47A bus. (p/s: There are a lot of bus stations there, have to take a look on the signboard to get on the right bus)

Street view of Hanoi nearby the bus stop. 

#Visit to Bat Trang

Finally reached here in Bat Trang after 40minutes of journey on the bus, it's a small village that is very peaceful and full of pottery products. I guess all the villages that away from Hanoi are very tranquility and peaceful. :)

Started to make our own pottery, it cost us 40,000 Dong. There are some Vietnamese from the Pottery Village were promoting in the bus station, we were heading straight away to the shop from the bus station.

We have tried to mould the pottery ourselves but it's really difficult for a beginner O:!

Yeah, finally it's done! :D 

There will be an artisan who helping tourist to carve on the decorations on the pottery.

Lastly. colour up your pottery with your creativity like a flying horse XD

After making the pottery, we had our lunch in the restaurant nearby the bus stop :D!

It's a small restaurant serving Pho, Bun Cha and some traditional snacks. I've tried Bun Cha which is a soup made from fish sauce with some grilled pork, eat together with Bun (one type of noodle in Vietnamese).

Then, we visited to the pottery market.

My friend bought this as souvenir which we could customize the little pottery with alphabets ourselves into a bracelet. Every alphabet cost 5000dong. :D 

Me and my friends,

Gabriela from Poland and Jomina from Philippines have visited to Old Quarter after work!

Old Quarter is a must-go place in Hanoi. It's an ancient place with a lot of old style streets. In Old Quarter, it's always hustle and bustle with a lot of cars and people over there. It's one of the tourist attraction in Hanoi, a lot of backpacker hotel and souvenir shops located there. Therefore, the price of the goods in Old Quarter are slightly higher compare to the other places. But it's a nice place for wandering around and visiting this historical vintage place. My host told me that originally Old Quarter street name was categorized by the name of the good that specially sold there, such as paper street, wood street and a lot more. But they did not keep this tradition now anymore.

#1 Hoan Kiem Lake

We dropped off from the bus in Hoan Kiem Lake. There is one turtle temple at the centre of the Hoan Kiem Lake. Well, it's not the same as my imagination. I tot it was big but turned out it's just a small building on the lake. *We must not trust on Google image! But it looks nice when the lightning light up at night. So, we just took a walk around the lake and some photos around the lakes. It was a wedding scenery for Vietnamese I guess, we saw like three pairs of new-wed were taking photos there :)!

#2 Trang Tien Ice Cream 

This is the must-try dessert in Old Quarter! :) It's really well-known as everyone in Hanoi recommended us to take the coconut flavour Trang Tien ice cream there! Therefore, we straight away headed to buy a Trang Tien Ice Cream when we reached there! :) 

But the signboard of the menu was shown in Vietnamese, three of us did not understand it. Therefore, we just ordered the ice cream that looked similar to coconut ice cream! But I think we have made wrong order, turned out we only have a vanilla ice cream ! TT

For me, it taste just normal but the cone is different from the normal cone. It's not that crunchy but slightly soft. Maybe I should have tried the coconut flavour ice cream next time :)!

One ice cream costs 12000 Dong = Rm2.10. It's slightly expensive but it worth trying since it's famous dessert in Old Quarter. :D

#3 Pho Bo

After wandering around Hoan Kiem Lake, we took our dinner in the roadside at Street Cao Go. Pho is kind of noodle like Kuey Teow with the clear soup and slices of beef or chicken. Pho Bo is beef Pho while Pho Ga is chicken Pho x) 

It's kinda nice as the noodle is smooth with the light soup and the beef slices are thin and tender.

On the way we were travelingtohave egg coffee, we met a vietnamese girl who is selling fruits with the bamboo basket. She just put the basket on our shoulder and ask us to take photo. After we have taken the photo, she forced us to buy some fruits from her and the price was ridiculous! She costed us for 250000dong -,-! We insisted not to pay her money but she kept arguing with us -,- so I've paid her 100000 eventually ==! *Don't get cheated by those fruit seller here! :( *AND THE PHOTOS ARE BLURRED!
But I took this as an expensive happiness token as I've gave the pineapple to my host family and they are really happy about that :P! She made me some pineapple slurry with the pineapple I gave them :)

#Egg Coffee

YEAHHH! I wanted to try this for long time! It's the famous Vietnamese drink which made up of egg yolk and coffee! This was the first time I have this coffee and it really taste good! :) It's actually a layer of sweetened egg yolk cream pour on top of the strong vietnamese drip coffee! The sweetness from the egg cream blended well with the bitter flavour of the coffee, Jomina and Gabi have ordered egg with chocolate but all of us think that egg coffee taste better because the chocolate drink is too sweet.

This is the first cafe I have visited in Vietnam.

These are some interior design of the cafe. It has two different areas in this cafe. One of this area is warmy and comfy while the other area is more hipster with black and white theme.

The hot selling points of this Cafe is the handsome guys working as the waiter undoubtedly! But I didnt get to take photo of them. They are very friendly and good service. I wanted to charge my laptop but my cable was not suitable to be used in the plug in Vietnam. Then, they tried so hard to find me one :)
Other than that, they passed me the menu on the table just because they knew that I did not know Vietnamese. I supposed to go to the counter to have order and pay XD!
Everyone here is so nice :)
They are really cute, even invited me to go back to the cafe again thru my instagram HAH :3


I've ordered a cup of  hot cuppucino. It costs me 30,000 DONG, equals to Rm5.20. It's really cheap :)
Normally in Malaysia, one cup of coffee cost at least RM10.
But the coffee here does not have latte art like what Malaysia Cafe does.

Vietnam has a lot of cafes, it's worth to be discovered if you are a COFFEE LOVER :)
I heard that Ho Chi Minh has much more cafes than Hanoi.
It's really a good place to spend your afternoon there :)!

Pattern Cafe 

109 Ngõ 48 Tạ Quang Bửu

Hanoi, Vietnam

Opening hours: 8am-10.30pm