I'm a few weeks behind on the travelling updates, mainly because for the last two weeks of Vietnam I was just sitting in Sapa doing nothing much at all through a combination of fog, rain, public holiday weekends, getting sick twice, and getting a slight head injury. As of the last blog post I was at Ba Be National Park. From there I caught the red mini-bus back to the town of Thai Nguyen - this turns out to be the direct bus, contrary to what is said on the internet. It goes a different route to the beige mini-bus, with most of the way from Cho Don to Thai Nguyen being along a winding one-bus-wide road through the rural villages. It only costs 100,000 as well, so is slightly cheaper than the two-bus method I
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