Within 5 minutes, the security guy comes back shouting “Cao Bang” to us. We go inside the bus station building to seat down and search a hostel for the night. So here we are 9.40pm, no hostel booked and in a bus station far of town… I’m thinking why did I not stop the earlier bus. The next bus is at 7am tomorrow. When I say he says, I really mean he mumbled something in Vietnamese and pointed at 9pm on the watch. He says it was at 9pm, the one we just missed indeed. We ask a security guy using google translate what time the next bus to Cao Bang is. Come on! The bus I did not stop must have been the one and we’ve just missed it! I’m about to stop it but the guy helping us waves us forward so we resume the sprint. A bus with a Cao Bang sign just drives past us. ![]() There are over 50 bays in this bus station so we sprint again as much as we can with our backpacks. Out of the blue, someone tells us the bus is at the other side of the station – Vietnamese people are helpful like that. We rush into the bus station, find out the platform number, after somehow deciphering the Vietnamese timetable and dash to it but there is no bus here. Fortunately the next taxi gives us a fair price at 20k dong (<$1). Dilemma, we can potentially miss our bus or get ripped off. Caro grabs a taxi but the driver tries to overcharge us. ![]() We’re not sure when the last bus to Cao Bang leaves from the station… Challenge accepted. We arrive back in Hanoi from Sapa just after 9pm. We asked to be dropped as close to the My Dinh bus station as possible to try and catch the overnight bus to Cao Bang. Journey from Sapa to Ban Gioc Waterfall (via Hanoi)
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