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So finally arrived in Vietnam in one piece despite THE journey from hell!! Forget cushty flashpacker style travelling, now we can officially call ourselves professional travellers after we left Laos at 6.30am only to arrive as broken people in Hanoi at 1.45am....... Our planned itinerary was supposed to be another straightforward jaunt into a new country but instead it lurched from one catastrophe to another..... The Laos part of the journey featured highlights including sharing a tuk tuk with a man transporting bloody guts in a plastic bag which leaked all over the floor, our driver reversing into a drainage ditch and and engine which a top speed of walk. Crossed into Vietnam, figured we'd be sipping Hanoi beer by tea time......what fools we were, I see that now. Instead the second part of the journey boasted the delight of a packed mini bus that required push starting from the very beginning and required a water top up every 30 minutes. Further highlights from this trip included breaking down for the eighth time in the middle of nowhere, losing all electrical power and driving through pitch darkness with a small head torch strapped to a wing mirror and being forced to evacuate when scalding engine steam filled the bus....... The sorry ending to this sad tale finds us as destroyed human beings entering our hotel room and discovering someone had been using the other bed for activity other than sleeping.....the rumpled bed, wet towel and post-coital cigarette was clue enough...we really didn't need to find concrete evidence in the bathroom. Welcome to Vietnam!!!!
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