Hanoi and Halong Bay
May 6th 2009 Hanoi
Leaving the clear blue skies and bright sun of Laos behind us, we found rain and an ominous grey gloom when we touched down in the People's Socialist Republic of Vietnam. After filling in a form to certify that we hadn't got bird or pig flu, for some reason I felt quite nervous as we approached passport control. We knew from our research that Vietnam is a far more 'edgy' and hazard
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