Name: Exploring My Neighborhood in Hanoi - VIETNAM WALK
Uploaded: 2018-01-11T03:23:44.000Z
Duration: 38 min 15 s
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Good afternoon everybody, it's Cory here.

This is going to be the first of many walking videos in Hanoi, and elsewhere around Vietnam.

But I'm finally getting to it, taken out the GoPro, taken out the stabilizer

And I'm ready to go, so where am I? Let's take a look.

But I'm here in the Thuy Khue Ward of Hanoi, and that's in the Tay Ho District.

And this main road here is the road I live on.

My house is actually maybe a block or two that way?

I'm going to walk along here. So my goal today... huuuuhhh.......

So my goal today is to walk from this street all the way to West Lake.

And West Lake is, I guess, like one road parallel over to the right.

So between this road and that road is kind of like a large neighborhood.

Depending on how far down this street I go.

I'm going to try and not see all of the neighborhood, but definitely get lost in the back alleys.

So this is what the road looks like. You can see there's a sidewalk, but it is

now a parking lot for motorbikes and stuff like that.

Wow, that guy's delivery box was huge on that moped.

So the shops around here are just like local places... there's a hardware shop right across the street.

You get like cheap clothing shops and a little corner mom & pop store.

I've noticed these kinds of gateways here. That's a Buddhist gateway, by the way.

It's got the... Manja, the red Manja on the top there.

And so there's like all these little entranceways into the alleys of this neighborhood.

There's more neighborhood on this side, over here as well. All back in here.

So many residential alleyways and stuff like that.

My goal is to cross the street and go here, through this gate.

This really old looking gate. I really wonder how old it is.

I have no idea what it says, except I understand the kanji on the very far left hand side is "mun"

I don't know if this neighborhood name is called Thuy Khue as well, there's so many things I don't know.

There's so many things I don't know about Vietnamese life, how they organize

names of neighborhoods and stuff like that.

So you see a lot of 3 or 4 story high Villa type of apartments

and they have the bars and stuff on their balconies.

I don't know why, theft is not too much of a problem here, people are very respectful.

(This area is safe, but other areas of Hanoi might not be.)

I don't know what's over here, is this a temple?

I'm just exploring back here, some of these areas I've never been to in my life.

This stuff here is "ghost money", paper money...

and every afternoon, people burn them to appease the spirits and pray for good luck and good fortune and stuff like that.

This is about 1:00pm, after the lunch rush.

Seems like a very chill street food shop, but nobody's there right now.

I like these vines coming down to the power line.

Now I have a feeling that if I keep going it'll take me directly to the lake.

And that's kind of not what I want to do.

I want to sort of zig-zag around this neighborhood and get lost.

You know, in Korea, walking around alleys and stuff

I pretty much have a very good sense of direction.

You know? I turn left 3 times, I know that I'm going back where I came from, and that kind of stuff.

If I keep going straight, I'll run into West Lake real soon.

So I'm going to stop that, and just go this way.

Wow, these power cables are super low. My head will definitely touch this.

It's very interesting, the architecture, in a lot of the back alley neighborhoods I've noticed.

You get the modern style villas, and then you get old places like this.

On walls, these older style walls.
Wow, look at all that broken glass on the top.

I don't know what this structure was originally a part of, maybe a temple or something

Back here, you do have to worry about mopeds and motorcycles.

So always keep an ear (and eye) open.
You can hear this guy...

This thing is all barbed up, I don't know what's in there.

Something's back there, something old and protected.

Very nice cool breeze coming through here.

There's a lot of places that have little birds and stuff hanging from the rafters.

So what I'll do is I'll back track through the neighborhood, in a different direction

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