Caroline going crazy with the hammer

The Country Side

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November 11th 2007
So last weekend a group of us went by bus to a small town a few hours south of Hanoi, to help clean up the area after having been severely flooded a couple of weeks ago. After a three and a half hour bus ride with way too many people and way too much puking (yes I know, disgusting, but I guess the Vietnamese suffer more from motion sickness than we do..) we finally arrived in this village whic ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

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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