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Out of the PRC - and Arrested camping illegally in the Border-Zone!

Day 226, 12th January
Qinzhou - Jiangping - VIETNAM - Mong Cai - Tra Co

Goodbye Communist China
After nearly 3,000 mile trouble-free cycling in China, we got arrested in Vietnams border-zone illegally free-camping on the beach...

My guts weren’t much better this morning, but after a quick email check, we were up and on the road for 10am. The idea was to get as close to the Vietnamese border as possible somewhere along the coastal road, and then camp. As we sped along the empty roads though, the general consensus was to reach the border at Dongxing and cross it today.

At about 4.30pm, we reached the town and located the narrow muddy river that is the actual border. It looked fairly un-controlled and would be easy to walk across, but we had the right documents and didn’t. We found the border bridge which was for foot-passengers only. We were hassled to buy some sort of ticket for 10 yuan, but got out of paying that. Chinese customs and immigration were a breeze and we were soon standing in front of the bridge by the Chinese boundary marker with nothing to stop us from crossing it.

End of the Peoples Republic...
The Jiangping border marker marks the territorial limits of China. Over the bridge was a new country to discover - Vietnam.

Half way across the bridge we entered The Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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