Cape Town - Johannesburg - Kuala Lumpur - Hanoi Howzit folks! My name is Bastiaan. I'm from Yzerfontein in South Africa and on the 5th of July my month-long holiday in Vietnam, with my fellow-traveller, Claire, (who I'm meeting up with tomorrow as she's coming from Oz), kicked off with me boarding the plane in Cape Town. Arrived in Joburg, then caught another plane (Malaysia airlines) to Kuala Lumpur (where I drank a chrysanthemum-flavoured iced tea. Tasted horrible). From there it was another 2 hours by plane to Hanoi, Feels like I've been on airplanes and airports for ages (didn't sleep for about 30 hours), but, finally, I'm in Hanoi. First thing that struck me (literally) was the heat. In Vietnam the heat is like a blanket, and that blanket is on fire. 40 degrees, humidity:
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