Into the Middle Kingdom
May 1st 2007 To exit Vietnam we had to return to Lao Cai for the border crossing there, and I was glad to leave. My overall impression of Vietnam was overwhelmingly negative, with too many interactions with people that were designed to rip me off or get money out of me, a generally poor infrastructure (with Internet access being uniformly hopeless throughout the country), and almost nothing in the way of compe
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