Hello Vietnam!
We have emerged from behind the Great Firewall of China. Hopefully now we can post a few of our blogs from both Vietnam and China and catch up a bit. On March 1st, we left Cambodia the same way we left Thailand; whiling away the hours on a bus by playing cards, writing, or reading, and occasionally just watching the miles roll by and the landscape shift back and forth between busy town and quiet countryside. When not occupied by a competitive game of 'hearts', researching our next destination or catching up on blogging, I thought about what we were leaving behind and what might lie ahead for us. I was hoping that we were taking away at least some authentic impressions of Cambodian life, culture and history. For reasons I'm not quite sure of, Vietnam has long been a country that I've been drawn to visit. At the border we got off the bus on the Cambodia side and were escorted through customs by our bus operators. When we emerged from the immigration building, we were