Vietnam
June 25th 2011 Hanoi is only a short flight away from Laos, but a world away in pace from polite, sleepy Vientiane. In the old city the streets are narrow and crowded, full of taxis, vans, trucks, cyclists and more motorbikes than you can imagine. The streets are also where people walk, dodging the traffic, because the pavements are full of stalls, people cooking, people sitting on small plastic stools, people
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