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Hanoi: A City I will not miss

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October 20th 2011
Unlike HCMC, Hanoi airport is quite far from the city. Luckily Jetstar sell bus tickets onboard which was only 35000 VND which took us straight to the city but not exactly where I was going, my hotel was in the old quarter adjacent to Hoan Kiem Lake. Hanoi is no different than Saigon in terms of motorcycles as they were everywhere. We were later told by one of our tour guides that in Hanoi there i ... 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