Hanoi

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Hanoi, Without the Rookie Mistakes Our first morning in Hanoi, we stood at the edge of the Old Quarter for a full five minutes, watching a river of scooters and waiting for a gap that was never going to come. A man selling baguettes from a bicycle finally took pity, touched my arm, and just walked us across — slow, steady, no sudden moves — while the traffic parted around us like water. “Don’t run,” he said, grinning. That was the whole trick. Once we stopped fighting the city, Hanoi opened right up. ...