Day 158 (Tue 12 Dec) - Kuala Lumpur / Hanoi

After another leisurely start had breakfast and packed up our stuff ready to leave. Jo have collected quite a few toiletries over the last few days so we had to squeeze them into our ever expanding rucksacks.

Checked out and took a taxi to Sentral station. Since we were flying with Air Asia we had to take a bus to the Low Cost Carriers terminal. Arriving at the terminal was a bit disappointing compared to the state of the art international terminal. It was small and when we went through to the departure lounge it didn't even have a board stating which gate or when we should board. It wasn't very relaxing as we had to strain to listen to garbled flight announcements over the loud speaker.

Flight left at 3pm and only about three hours later we were in Hanoi (Vietnam), although it was 5.15pm local time.

Quickly collected our bags and went through to the arrival hall where a chap from our hotel was waiting for us. We had to wait for other punters so whilst we were waiting Sarb went to get some local money out of the ATM. He returned soon after looking slightly puzzled. He explained that he had nearly got our two million dong and was worried that was far too much. He ended up getting some money out and later we realised that 2 million dong is only about 64 pounds. Think we are going struggle with this currency.

Finally we were taken into Hanoi and dropped off at A-Z Backpackers hostel in the Old Quarter. After we had dumped our bags popped into Half Man, Half Noodle for a drink. After Jo had guzzled a potent cocktail we went for dinner at a local vietnamese place.