Today I’m waiting for my 5:30PM “sleeper” bus to take me to Hanoi. It is supposed to arrive at 8:30AM tomorrow. I’m in the hotel lobby today and the hotel staff invited me to have lunch with them, which was very nice of them.
I used my time today to book a flight to China (March 7th). I was planning on going to Laos in a few days, but after reading the nightmare 24+ hour bus stories getting from Vietnam to Laos and reading about the pushing, shoving and chaos at the border, I’m having second thoughts. Maybe I can save Laos for some other time and go there from Thailand where it sounds much easier. After Hanoi, I’ll probably take a plane from there to Bangkok, Thailand or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.