After our traumatic journey to get here we just wanted to sleep, so we stepped off the bus into a touts arms. We didn't care where we went, luckily the guesthouse turned out to be ok, cleanish with very friendly staff and of course cheap!! We snuggled into our sleeping sheets and slept like babies for hours. When we awoke we explored the city to find our guesthouse was down a market street, great to see how the locals live, selling their frogs, eels, fish, e.t.c. but not great to get to and from our guesthouse. Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and blends french colonial and vintage with it's labyrinth of streets and stalls. Not far into our explorations with my nose in the lonely planet map, Jason got jumped on by a local vietnamese
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