Halong Bay

Sapa and Halong Bay

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January 12th 2010
We decided to book a tour to Sapa for the following day and ended up deciding on a 4 night 3 day tour. Our tour included all travel, meals, accomodation as well as the daytours for an average of $25 a day. We left Hanoi on Friday 1st January at 9pm on a sleeper bus to Lao Cai, which was due to arrive at around 5am the next morning. We were supposed to be in a higher class sleeper but due to ... 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