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What's up my friends?

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What's up my friends?

Chào qu'hobát và chào mừng qu'hobát quay trái vơi.

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Today I'm going to tell you about my trip to HaZang and that's why I'm sitting to the side.

So here I can put pictures and videos for you guys to see what I'm talking about.

Now, this trip was pretty crazy, to be honest.

So today I'm going to tell you about the highlights of the trip.

For example, we got stuck at the bottom of a mountain for five hours.

We took a really strange, interesting boat ride.

and the third thing is that we literally saved a guy's life.

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Okay, let's get started with the podcast.

Okay, so a few months ago,

my brother came to Vietnam from Canada to visit me.

And on that trip, we did a trip to Ha Giang.

So it was me, my brother,

and my two close friends, Luke and Steve.

And before you say, Carter,

why would you go to Ha Giang after your brother just came to Vietnam for the first time?

That must be really dangerous.

But don't worry.

He does mountain biking in Canada.

He had an international driver's license for the motorbike.

and we did some practice in Hanoi before we went to Ha Zang.

So don't worry, he had experience and we got practice in first and he doesn't drive like a maniac.

He drives very carefully and intelligently.

So I wasn't worried.

I know he's a smart guy.

And anyway, so we started our trip to Ha Zang.

The trip was about nine or 10 days.

and we started from Hanoi.

So Steve, Luke and I have been to Hazang before.

Steve especially.

He's been maybe like five or six times.

So we all have some experience going to Hazang.

And after we started our trip from Hanoi,

we didn't take a night bus to Hazang.

We started from Hanoi and we drove to Ha Zang.

So I had my own bike.

Luke had his own bike,

but my brother and Steve,

they both rented their own bikes.

This is important for the story.

So anyway, we all start the trip from Hanoi and everything is going fine.

And then when we get out of the city in Hanoi,

my friend Steve, his bike breaks down.

It broke down pretty much on like a freeway, like a long road.

And it didn't look like there was anywhere around us to fix the bike.

So we went to this place.

We walked the bike to a place where someone was selling iced tea.

And we asked him if there was anywhere close by where we could fix the bike.

Because this was outside of the city.

Like you look around and there's really not much there.

And the guy says, just go down that road about 200 meters and take a right.

So we thought, okay, cool.

And we started to, well,

one person was pushing Steve's bike and we made it to the garage to fix the bike.

So we got the bike fixed and we assumed everything was all good.

spoiler alert everything was not all good but we'll see why later

so anyway we go to a homestay

and we're staying there we had dinner had fun had some rice wine

and we met a big group of Vietnamese people

so we just hung out with them for the night and everything was fun and normal

So the next few days we stayed at some different homestays.

There's nothing too special about that.

So I'll skip to when we went to the Nyokwe River.

Now, right before we went to the Nyokwe River,

Steve's bike broke down again.

So we had to go to a garage to get it fixed.

The mechanic had to fix his clutch, like his clutch discs.

And I got the mechanics number

because this was the second time the bike broke down and I figured it might break down again.

So after the bike gets fixed,

we make our way to the Nyokwe River.

And for anyone who has ever been to the Nyokwe River before,

you know how beautiful it is from the top of that mountain.

because from there you can see down to the river you can see the turquoise water

and the trail that leads to it and the mountains on the other side

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because the river is like between two mountains in a valley basically

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and normally you would buy a ticket to go on the boats down in the river

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But we didn't plan it too well,

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so we didn't buy a ticket.

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We just decided we'll go there and then we'll get a ticket or we'll pay them at the bottom.

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Because that's what we did a few years ago and it was totally okay.

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Before we went down to the Nyauque River,

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we took some photos at the top and some videos and we really enjoyed the scenery.

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I don't often say this word,

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but it was like breathtaking.

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It was really, really nice.

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And after we enjoyed the view,

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we started to head down to the river.

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Now, I don't know if you have been to the Nyokwe River before, then you'll know.

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But for those who have never been there,

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when you go down to the river,

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the path is really like winding.

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and there are a few parts that are really steep and it takes about 20 minutes to get down to the bottom.

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So anyway, after we got to the bottom,

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we planned to go on the boat and take a little boat tour.

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But when we got there,

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everybody was painting their boats.

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So we couldn't do any tour.

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Since we had already driven down there,

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we figured, okay, let's just enjoy the river a bit.

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Let's just sit here, hang out,

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and then we will go back up.

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So after hanging out for around 20 minutes,

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we decided to go back up and get some lunch

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because it was around one in the afternoon at that time and we were starting to get hungry.

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But then after we got on the bikes to go up the mountain, guess what happened?

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Steve's bike broke down again.

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So now we're at the bottom of this mountain at the Nyakwe River and his bike is broken down.

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There's absolutely no way we could push the bike up because it was a really heavy bike.

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And even just walking up that mountain with nothing would be a difficult workout.

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but luckily I had the mechanic's number

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so I called him I said please come down

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and help us you know we'll we'll pay you for your time

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and for your service just please come down and help us

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because we really really need your help no one in the village by the Nyokwe river could fix our bike

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So this guy was basically our only hope at getting this bike up the mountain.

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Now, luckily, he was really nice and he agreed to come down and help us.

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So after around 45 minutes,

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he came and it took around three or four hours to fix the bike.

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And during this time, we were just waiting for him to fix the bike,

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hanging out, and people were walking by,

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staring at us, wondering what we were doing.

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There were cows there.

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It was a pretty funny scene.

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It even started to get dark at around like 5.30 or 6.

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But luckily, he fixed the bike.

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And so we thanked him.

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We paid him.

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and then we got up the mountain and went to our homestay

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and by that time we were starving because we didn't even eat lunch

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and so we had like the best dinner one of the best dinners

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that I think we've all ever had and we were not only really hungry

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but the food at this homestay was really good as well.

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So now I'll fast forward to the crazy boat ride.

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Now we found this boat because we were following the maps

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that my friend had researched online

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and it led us to go through these really narrow trails where

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if you fell to the right then like it would not be good for you

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because it was quite steep and quite high

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but after we got through those trails it came to a river where the boat was.

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Now as soon as they saw us they started to bring the boat towards us.

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It's more kind of like a ferry for carrying bikes

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but it's also pretty much just a raft made with bamboo sticks maybe i'm not totally sure

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and it was moved by manpower like there was a cord there

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and they would have to pull the cord to move uh the boat

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or the raft i was a little bit worried

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because we had our four bikes on it

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and there were times where water was coming up through the raft

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and i thought okay i hope it can hold four bikes

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but anyway it turned out totally fine of course the people knew what they were doing

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so then after that the next day that's

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when the really crazy thing happened so after

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that boat ride we went to our homestay had dinner slept

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and then the next day we began riding to our next destination

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so on the way to the next destination we were going down a long road

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and as we were going i was in the front

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and i could see something down the road on basically still on the road

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and so as i kept going

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and i could see it more clearly i could tell

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that it was a man next to his bike and it looked like he crashed and so we all drove

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up to him and when we got to him we could see

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that yeah this guy definitely crashed it was really bad his

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helmet was completely like destroyed on this side like scratched

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and broken he had on his both of his elbows both

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of his knees his hands basically every like part of his body looked like it had been damaged from this crash.

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And when he stood up,

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he got up really slowly and it looked like he had hit his head.

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So I asked him, do you know what year it is?

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And he said, I can't really,

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I don't really know off the top of my head.

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I don't really know.

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So if he doesn't know what year it is,

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it's pretty clear that he had a head injury,

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probably a concussion or something like that.

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At this point, we know we have to get him to a hospital.

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And luckily there was someone

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driving by in a car and we flagged him down

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and we asked him where is the closest hospital we need to bring this guy to the hospital

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because he just had a really bad fall

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and this guy he said oh okay like get him in

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the car uh I'll drive him to the hospital we said okay great we we will follow you

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so I took the guy's bike the guy who fell down

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and I went with Luke and he went on his own bike

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so Luke and I followed this car all the way to the hospital

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and it was around 20 kilometers away pretty far so

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when we got there there was pretty much no one there because this was a hospital in a really small town.

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So I walked in, I was looking for someone and I didn't see anyone.

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Honestly, I just saw a few chickens walking around.

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So I thought, uh-oh.

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But as I went further into the hospital,

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I found some people and I told them like,

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hey, we found this guy.

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He fell on the road.

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He's seriously injured.

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He hit his head.

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He's bleeding.

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Please help us.

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And the funny thing was,

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was that they seemed more surprised about how I could speak Vietnamese.

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And they were saying like,

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oh, your Vietnamese is so good.

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And I was saying like, okay, like, thank you.

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But we have to check this guy out because he,

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you know, he could be seriously hurt.

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So that was kind of funny, to be honest.

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And then we brought him downstairs in this hospital to where the doctor was.

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And the doctor looked at him, took off his jacket.

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And we saw that he was more injured than we thought

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because we couldn't see under the jacket until he took it off.

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And that hospital didn't have any machines like x-rays to check on him.

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So the doctor said, we need to send him to a hospital in Kaobang.

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And there they can see how he is injured.

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And so we ordered a truck,

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sent him to that hospital.

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The truck brought his bike along with himself.

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and I got his WhatsApp phone number so I could stay in touch with him and help him if he needed anything.

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So after he got to the hospital

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and got the x-rays done the next day he told me he had five broken ribs,

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a punctured lung and a ruptured kidney along with severe cuts and burns on his arm.

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But anyway, after that, he went back to Canada and everything is all good.

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So I guess the moral of the story is that when you go to Hazang,

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just be careful.

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If it's, you know, don't drive too fast.

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Be careful of the trucks.

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Everyone says how dangerous it is because there are so many accidents.

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but if you just drive carefully stay on the side of the road don't try to pass people on corners

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or turns or anything crazy like that then you should be okay

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so that's going to wrap up the story here is the last photo we took on

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that trip of the four of us together i think it's

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a great photo it kind of feels like it sums up the whole trip right there just we were tired

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and uh it had been a crazy week so anyway

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that is the story of my trip to hazang i hope

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you guys enjoyed it uh you can write in the comments any experiences

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or trips crazy things that happened uh write it and i'll try to check it out.

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But yeah, that's it for this podcast.

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I will see you in the next one.

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Goodbye.

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