Hekou-Lao Cai (4-6 Oct 13)
October 6th 2013 And so with the final grains of sand in my hour glass tourist visa falling, I had to race down south to the Vietnamese border for (yet another) visa run. No stranger to such a necessity, having already had to do the same twice in Thailand, this time it was nevertheless a much more arduous journey.
It started with a early morning speedy one hour flight from the Shangri-la airport back to Kunming
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