These things are big

Heading north

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April 13th 2011
After a bunch of hemming and hawing we decided it made more sense to head north to Hanoi and visit Hao Long bay and leave the Anghor Wat return for another trip. We're hopping a plane there today and we'll be bookending it with a day in Hanoi on either end of 3 days and two nights on Hao Long bay, one on a boat (made to look like an old chinese junk) and one in a hotel on 'Monkey Island'. Probab ... 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