When we had landed in Hanoi, collected our bags and been through airport immigration (Vietnam deserves kukos as the only place that immigration have even looked twice at me now I have long hair and my passport photo still shows a skinhead), we went outside to arrange transport to the centre of town. The minibus run by Vietnam Airlines was only two dollars, or the equivalent in the brilliantly named Vietnamese Dong, so we jumped in. When it came to paying however, the guy told me that two dollars was 50,000 dong. Luckily I had done my homework and knew that it was 35,000 so corrected him. He looked embarrassed, his mate laughed but he accepted 35,000 dong, knowing he had been caught out. Scam number one foiled. When we finally arrived at the centre of
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