Because i`m too stubborn to stop i ended up in Vinh, 200km more than i planned. But i just didn`t see the point in stopping when there still was daylight and the small town i was going to stop in seemed like crap!

Driving in this facinating country is.. Well yes, facinating.
Today i`ve driven on the 1A or AH1 (i think it`s the same road with two names)
This is the main highway of Vietnam. The road runs along the coast from Saigon to Hanoi and 90% of the strech is 1.5 lanes going north and 1.5 lanes going south wich means that you have about 6 meters of road..
..This road you are sharing with:

• Monster busses with engines from a spacecraft and the horn from Titanic
• Semi trailers with cargo containers
• Crazy mini busses swapping lanes like there`s no tomorrow
• Dumptrucks
• Pickups with either live or dead animals
• An occacional car
• Millions of motos transporting: Dogs, pigs, cows, windows (yes, glass), trees, beds, statues, lamps, rice, chickens, suitcases (i counted 12), refrigirators, semi truck tires, bricks, bicycles, broken motos, cages, stoves, bamboo, tv`s, coffee, flowers, doors.. yes, you get the picture.
  
• Cows and other animal trying to reclaim the streets
• Kids on bicycles
• Farmer walking along the road
  
• Very, very, very old women crooked like shimps with caines crossing the street.
• And.. today i also saw 4 little girls running arcoss the road with 4 machetes... clever.
  

After a little googeling i`ve decided to Skip Halong City because it`s supposed to be a shitty place and i`m heading for Hanoi tomorrow.
From there i can book a boat around Halong bay instead.