Beginning of our hill tribe stroll

Hanoi - Sapa. Into the highlands...

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December 5th 2008
After spending a fews days in Hanoi we had already seen the sites and walked many km's in busy streets with pretty bad pollution so we were looking forward to leaving the capital and travelling to the mountains, Ali in particular was going to have a nervous breakdown if another motorbike nearly ran over her foot. When we first arrived in Hanoi we had booked a hard sleeper on the night train ... 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