tai chi in hanoi

i read in the guidebook that if you get up for the sunrise in hanoi and go down to the lake, you can see people doing tai chi. as utterly painful as it was to leave my comfortable hotel bed (what's up, not sleeping with springs poking you?), it was definitely worth it. below is a video of my favorite group.

actually the different forms of exercise people were doing were really quite amusing. some involved a lot of uncontrolled shaking of limbs, slapping of oneself repeatedly, wearing obscenely tight leopard leotard body suites (!!!) and doing aerobics at fast-forward speed. if only i could operate a camera and surpress laughter at the same time...