The plane ride from Vientiane to Hanoi was only an hour and fairly pleasant. On arrival in Vietnam we were charged a ridiculous amount to enter the country and have our visas stamped into our passports, but hey, we'd come all this way so who cares! After the mandatory map collecting, money drawing, toilet stopping (many times) and general sense of where we're trying to go, we jumped in a taxi and headed out into Hanoi. OMG....... Earlier on in this blog I made i...