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 compensating attractions. I can't think of one reason why I would ever return there, which makes Vietnam unique among the countries I've visited in my life. In China, we were given assistance from the moment we appeared in the immigration building in Hekou, being shown which forms to fill in and where to queue. It took a while for all the admin to be done, and then I
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