The bus was about two-thirds full and the ride to the border was quite comfortable. When we reached the border, the sun was out and it was starting to get quite warm outside. The bus company gave us all little neck tags to wear as we went through customs, and we grabbed our bags and headed inside the Vietnamese side of things. I had to send my bags through an x-ray machine, but there weren't any problems and aside from having to pay 2000 dong for another "health inspection", leaving Vietnam was painless. We walked a couple hundred meters to the massive, modern Chinese immigration building, where it took some time to find the proper immigration forms in english. I filled them out and was quickly waved through the "food products" desk while some poor Vietnamese
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