Siem Reap Cambodia - Day 15 of 28

 After a very nice breakfast - profusion of Asian and western options - on 63rd floor of Lotte hotel Hanoi - unfortunately we could see nothing as there was thick cloud cover our entire stay - we visited the Vietnam ethnicity museum - there are many hill peoples the make up what are Vietnamese today, here they showed customs artifacts and buildings. Then we were treated to egg coffee - egg yolks are whipped with condensed milk and poured over hot coffee, very tasty, not unlike egg nog - there was a factory there too offering jewelry, jade, embroidered pictures, etc. we get many of these opportunities. The went for lunch of French/Asian food after which we went to the airport for our flight to Cambodia on Bamboo Airlines. This was 8th hotel change and handled very well, bags go outside our hotel room door and appear next in (continue s below)



 

There were musicians and dancers are the hotel entrance to greet us in Cambodia.
Example of hill tribe dwelling.
Egg coffee.
Bicycle packed with hundreds of fish traps
Amazing profusion of motorbikes in Hanoi, every family has four or more - sidewalks are full of them, sometimes see four people on one.
These were at each place at lunch - there was a small tablet in the shallow circle, water in the deeper one. You put the tablet in the water and it becomes a moist towel- they were all expanded before I could get a pic of the tablet.



our hotel room at the next stop - we did have to identify of bags for customs entry but then they were off to our hotel room. 

Much warmer in Cambodia, upper 90’s and humid. Tomorrow we visit Angkor Wat very famous old temple.

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