Hell Bus to Vietnam, Hanoi June 5 - 7

Hell Bus was definitely the right word to describe this trip. The bus picked us up at VangVien and wen to the capitol of Laos then drove to the border of Laos and Vietnam. They made all the Westerners sit in the back which made it for a really bumpy and rough ride....on top of that they had little critters and snakes in plastic bags that they kept in the overhead luggage places...pretty rowdy. When we got to the border the bus stopped and turned off the engine and we were supposed to sleep in a hot bus till the border opened. For some reason they barely let me into the border but we finally made it to Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnam. It was basically a big city but we did go to the snake village where we had the opportunity to eat 8 different dishes of snake, drink snake blood (red shot), snake bile (green shot) and local Vietnamese wiskey (brown shot), here are a few pics of the snake village and the shots....we also picked up 2 English guys traveling together, so our group grew to 5 now.....