vietnam: day 11

we slept in, enjoyed the complimentary breakfast at the hotel.  we lounged around all day and got errands done like booking our bangkok hotel and laundry.  at 4pm our guide and driver arrived to take us down to laocai station.  we had dinner down there.  we ordered a vietnamese sandwich because we hadn't had one yet but it wasn't what we expected - just meat inside the baguette.

we said farewell to our guide and got on the night train back to hanoi.  this time we had australian travelers as our cabin mates.  we exchanged stories and tips with them and went to bed.