Well GOOD news everybody! Somehow I miraculously got my lost rucksack back!! Not sure where it went to but somehow it turned up somewhere in Vietnam and a Canadian saw the flag on my backpack, looked at my flight details, contacted my parents (who were connected to the flight) they sent me an email with a phone number ... and now I have it back! Unfortunatley though, I had already splashed out $200 for a new passport which couldn't be cancelled! I ended up spending 9 days at Ho Chi Minh waiting for a new passport to be made, my backpack to be returned, and getting an exit visa ...all of this sounds simple enough but I was at the Canadian embassy and Immigration office everyday bugging them to do it faster. (Originally it was to
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