Advertisement
« previous next »
Boats moored in Halong Bay  
   

Boats moored in Halong Bay

Tet in Vietnam: Year of the Golden Pig

February 26th 2007
Our New Year's eve for 2007 was a little anti-climactic - asleep on a train somewhere in Central Thailand. So it was fortunate that we ended up getting another New Year's Eve in the same year to get it right - in Hanoi as the Vietnamese celebrate "Tet". At the same time as Chinese New Year, moving into the year of the Golden Pig. Unfortunately it was not easy to have a REALLY good time since po ... read more
Asia » Vietnam » Northwest » Lao Cai » Sapa

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
Advertisement
Tot: 0.146s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 11; qc: 46; dbt: 0.0378s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.2mb