Today was spent walking through every crevice of Hanoi! In the boiling hot heat, we walked all over town running errands... We needed to change our kip currency from Laos into Dong and nowhere here accepts kip! Even in the currency exchange bureau, and even though Laos is next door to Vietnam! It probably took us around 2 hours of walking around every shop owner drew us a map to another shop where they would send us somewhere else and so on... Turns out, the one...

Got woken up at 7:30am on the bus at the border crossing, we had to walk to get our exit stamp. It was packed out with people barging there way through queues, two guys stood inside smoking in front of a no-smoking sign, a group of lads moaning and shouting that they had no money for a $1 exit stamp! One actual dollar? Who travels into a foreign country with not a single speckle of cash, really? It was freezing cold and this is all far too much too early for me, ...