Tam Coc locals

Taking to the roads of Ninh Binh

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May 18th 2007
Bye Bye Cat Ba and hello to yet another journey, this time heading to North Central Vietnam to Ninh Binh Province for what is supposed to be a very scenic part of Vietnam. Most of the other travellers that we'd met so far had no intention of going to NB nor had they heard of it (in most cases). From what we'd read it was supposed to be pretty spectacular so we set off in the hope that we'd find s ... read more

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more