February 20-21, 2009, Like all stories, this one should be told from the beginning. Towards the end of my stay in Guangzhou, Guangdong province ( it lasted 8 days), I had a spontaneous urge to see Vietnam. On my 7th day in Guangzhou, I had already obtained my Vietnamese visa, so I was ready to go, but, of course, I needed to know how to get there. After much inquiry through one of the reception workers in my hostel, The Pearl River Youth Hostel, I was told that the best way would to go to Hanoi, Vietnam was from Nanning, Guangxi Province. When I had asked about the most convenient mode of transportation, the female receptionist was quite vague ( she spoke Eglish fluently, for the record) but wrote down an address in Chinese for
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