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The outside of the cafe/restaurant where I stayed in one of the four guestrooms they rent
Sapa - Who says it doesn't get cold in Vietnam?

December 20th 2009
I arrived in Lao Cai train station at 6:15 AM after a pretty good night's sleep, considering I was sleeping in a tiny room with three strangers on a moving train. I thought my hotel was picking me up at 7:00, so I waited. And waited. And finally at 7:30 I figured I'd been stood up and took a minibus for 30,000 VND (1.60USD) to Sapa. This was just one of several misunderstandings I had with hotels. ... read more
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Vietnamese Flag 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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