Day 37 We got up early to catch the 8am bus to Hanoi, it was a very long ride: 3.5 hours to the Vietnamese border and then another 4 hours on the capital Hanoi. Following the previous ride, where we had almost been left at the service station we decided to stock up with all kinds of bread, fruit & crisps for the journey, most of which turned out to be pretty bad anyway. The border crossing itself was very chaotic. First of all the coach has to remain on Chinese soil so everybody gets off the coach, collects their luggage and is then taken the remaining distance to the border crossing on a golf cart. Once through Chinese immigration you take another golf cart to the Vietnamese immigration, which has to be one the most
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