This is kind of a long story - and a bit of a shaggy dog one at that. While planning for this trip, I had the usual "bucket list" of places I'd not been to yet ... places such as Angkor Wat, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Halong Bay, Mekong Delta, Beaches, Vientienne, Luang Prabang, Irrawady Mekong River Dolphins, etc. While researching and planning for the trip, I realized that 3 weeks was not enough time for everything on the bucket list, so I compromised to visiting the south east of Vietnam and the southern parts of Lao before finishing off in Angkor Wat. That meant no Hanoi, Halong Bay, Vientienne nor Luang Prabang. Since the initial travelling was going so well, I changed my original plans from crossing into Laos after Hue to going north to
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