Driving through the rice terraces around Sapa

August 11th 2008
Well, China is still awesome. It's also still taking me a long time to get anywhere, as i seem to have been having fun wherever I go and sticking around. That's not necessarily a problem, but it does mean I only just left Yunnan province a few days ago after spending an entire month there. For once lonely planet was totally right, when visiting Yunnan first, be prepared you might not end up seein ... 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

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Mark

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After a few years of the daily grind, I quit my job, bought a few plane tickets and set off around the world. After a 46 hour flight from Amsterdam - Auckland (with layovers), I arrived in New Zealand, where I spent two weeks. I then flew to Bangkok, and spent the next three months or so making my way through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. I walked accross the Chinese border in July 2008, with six weeks left until my flight home from Shanghai. Those six weeks were of course never going to be enough, and I have still never been to Shanghai... I decided to let my ticket expire and stay... full info

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