HANOI Flight to Hanoi on Laos Airlines was actually quite enjoyable - no issues with the propellors plus we got fed, -always a bonus. A lot of people warned us about Vietnam - claiming that the people were not so friendly and that the cities were heaving with mopeds....totally disagree with the former but the latter.....we had never seen so many mopeds in our lives. HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of them, no road markings, no rules = wacky races. Funny to watch, not so funny trying to cross the road, which can take sometimes up to 20 mins to find a gap - and you always run the risk of getting your legs burned from the exhausts. Great fun. Hanoi (the capital) is a great place, albeit we kept getting lost (everyday actually, we just could not
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