Here's a couple of photos that I found amusing around town. The first one is of an electricity pole down a main road. It's not even that crazy by Hanoian standards, but it does illustrate that Hanoi is a city in the 21st century running on 1900's infrastructure. I have no idea how the electricity corporation bills all the customers for use, and at first I thought maybe it was free... but no, there are definitely power meters around. Maybe you don't have to be a licensed electrician to run the cables : )
This next photo shows that there is more than one way to skin a cat. In fact in Hanoi, the cat and every other meat is skinned in the street, and sold right there. (Okay maybe they don't sell cat, but you can definitely get dog in the country North of town.) There are plenty of flies having their fair share of the produce too. The guy in the right of the photo, Tung, is a local engineer I've been working with. He's looking at me funny because I'm taking a photo of the butcher - why would I want to do that?! It's so normal!
Note: Tung's head isn't really that warped, it's the dodgy quality mobile phone camera that I took the photo on. The high quality landscapes you'd got used to from Halong Bay are sadly not replicated by a tiny pin-point camera. I think I might go and purchase one of those pocket sized digital camera's for moments like this.
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