31/48.-Northeast Vietnam, Luong Hoa

There is something about the Vietnamese personality that upset me. They prefer telling a lie than saying they do not want to do something. This was the case with our driver. When we told him we wanted to go from Cao Bang to Ha Giang on a mountain road, he told us it was closed. We asked a local in Cao Bang, and he told us that if we had a good four wheeled vehicle, it would be possible. When I told this to our driver, he said he had asked a driver friend of him. It was impossible, he said. We later learnt that although there had been a landslide in the region, the road we had suggested was open.

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