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My memories of Hanoi will always be asociated with the aawful journey to get there. We decided we would take the mỏe expensive over night sleeping bus in order to make the 24 hours more bearable. However whilst we diđi get our ơn bed, we ended up having to bbasically share it with 3 other people who were packed together so tightly on the bus in the aisle, so make matters worse i ha a vomiter right next to me, i never actually thought i would get used to the sond ò vomit!
The jouney got worse when we got to the lao-vietnam border cross, firstly we were told we had to pay $100 for something which completely wasnt our fault, eventually we managed to convinced them that we shouldn't have to pay. By this point the bus and everyone on it had left to get vietnam visa's, except we thought they had just left without us with all our stuff, we had a frantic 10 minutes running around trying to find it where they were! When we did eventually find our bus we were told out luggage should to outside the visa checking place, however because we arrived there late the had already got back on the bus, not that we knew that, so we spent another 10 minutes convinced we had lóst all ò our stuff. However in the end nothing actually went wrong, just a very bad experience.
However despite the bus journey we both love Hanoi and have had a lovely day walking through the narrow streets of the old quarter, trying to avoid the motorbikes coming right towards us and enjoying the cheap local food! This í probably one of our favourite places we have been too.
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Mark Sorry you had such a horrendous journey - was the problem with your Lao visa on exiting Laos or your new Vietnam visas on entry? Glad you got to Hanoi safely and like it as much as we did. Strongly recommend the fried fish if you fancy splashing out 40kDong each. We arrived in Phonm Penh very late last night and spent the first night in stoner Koh San Road type place but have moved somewhere quieter today. Enjoy Vietnam Dad x
MAtttt Wowza sounds pretty horrendous in terms of comfortability! Glad you're keeping the good times going though, cant wait for you guys to come back and shower us with many a hilarious story :) xx