You are entering the third world... But it’s awesome! We really loved Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city. We could see that it was a very poor place immediately after stepping out of our hotel and on to the streets—really old buildings, poorly paved roads, a lot of pollution, etc. But the people in Vietnam seemed happier and friendlier than those in China. They all hang out on the streets, day and night, eating fresh spring rolls, drinking lemon tea, smoking huge foot-long pipes, playing checkers, braiding hair, or kicking around a soccer ball. There are TONS of motor bikes and scooters there, whizzing by as fast as can be, carting anything and everything you can imagine. On the back of bikes we saw: a crate of small dogs, 20 chickens strung on a line, buckets of fish,
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