Thien Cung cave

this cave was discovered in the 1930s by a farmer following a monkey. It's right next to Dau Go, used in the 1200s by a famous Viet generalto hide bamboo stakes to defeat Kublai Khan.

North Vietnam

January 20th 2007
It's Sat night in Hanoi, and we just visited 2 places of worship: a local Buddhist temple with a small, all female group chanting and kowtowing, and one of the largest Catholic churches in Hanoi, a full house singing mass in Vietnamese, very moving. Such a contrast of sights and sounds and scents! We just returned from an overnight boat cruise in Halong Bay, thousands of karst limestone islands, ... 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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