Perfume Pagoda

I have spent the last few days exploring Hanoi and a little bit around. On Friday Cody and I wanted to go shopping and started wandering around the city. It was pouring down, and of course we got lost, so we jumped on a bus to try to find the other students, but than my phone died and we got off at the wrong stop. After tracking around in the rain some more we eventually went into a random ragge bar where we got warmed up and I was able to charge my phone. Finally we met the other students and went to the theatre to see Beauty and the Beast! It was a little bizarre, for after being use to interacting and seeing only Vietnamese people we were all of a sudden surrounded by only “westerners”. On Saturday we went to see a traditional Vietnamese water puppet show in the center of Hanoi City.
Sunday morning we got up really early and got on a bus that took us about two outside of the city. The buss dropped us off by a river where we all got into little canoes. The canoes took us through a beautiful landscapes of the characteristic Vietnamese mountains and rice paddies. It is was amazing. The scenery was absolutely gorgeous. After about an hour in the canoes we stopped at the bottom of a big mountain. Than we walked for about an hour to get to the top where we found a big cave. The cave was made into a temple. It was called perfume pagoda.
Unfortunately I was food poisoned the night before so I was not exactly feeling great. I was about the puke the whole way there and back, but other than that it was really nice to get out of the busy city and be able to enjoy some of the amazing nature Vietnam has to offer.Hahaha.