Xin Chao from Ho Chi Minh City, I love it - Vietnam has stolen the show so far. Even when people 'accidentally' try to change your currency into a ten-fold decrease in value and the powercuts keep on going, the infectious smiles and the ability to hear 'looking looking, buying buying, motorbike motorbike' always make me laugh. Tip for visitors, if you ever think it is OK to cross the road, there is ALWAYS another motorbike, its never OK, just go, I hope you played frogger when you were a kid. Vietnam is sponsored by boats. Thats wooden junks, putt putt boats, rowing boats endless boats. If people are not sailing/rowing I swear they are drinking (in a good way). On land we have embraced hillstations, balconies and doxycyclin. Somehow fate sent us to Hanoi Backpackers
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