Red Dzao woman

On the roof of Indochina

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May 17th 2007
I was a bit nervous - I had never travelled in the sleeping carriage of the night train before. We had booked a hard sleeper for the way to Sapa and a soft sleeper back. This wasn't to save money but to experience also the more local way to travel. (To get the real real thing I think we should have taken just the seat but this far we weren't ready to experiment.) When we passed the soft sleeper ca ... 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