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Visiting the ‘Halong Bay of the Rice Paddies’

June 12th 2013
The other side trip that I had planned to do from Hanoi was to a place called Tam Coc (no sniggering please!) which has some similarities to Halong Bay, except its huge limestone rock formations jutted out of rice paddies on the side of the Ngo Dong River, instead of out of the sea as at Halong. It actually bears a remarkable similarity to Guilin in China, except the Ngo Dong is much narrower than ... 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

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Joan & Neil

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Joan and Neil have posted blogs below on the following trips: 1. South America for 3 months, from Sept07 through to Nov07, visiting each of Ecuador (including the Galapagos Islands), Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. 2. Far north Thailand in Mar08 where Neil taught English at a Summer School for the SPF charity he was involved with. This also included a side trip for the weekend to Luang Prabang in Laos. 3. Russia (cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg), then visit to each of Croatia, Budapest & Vienna for a total of 4 weeks, starting in mid Sept08. 4. Neil did a similar SPF te... full info

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