Halong Bay

December 30th 2007
We survived the bus journey and found ourselves checking into a really nice hotel (we deserved it!) in the Old Quarter of Hanoi near the Hoan Kiem Lake. Thank God. 28hrs on a bus is definitely about 20hrs too long but it wasn't actuallyas bad as i was expecting. Okay, so the bus conductor was illegally trafficking dozens of exotic reptiles over the border that were stashed in bags under our s ... 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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Lisa S.

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OK, so we have booked and paid for the Round-The-World tickets and our first stop is Delhi, India. We're going to head north to Uttaranchal before embarking on the "golden triangle" of Delhi/Jaipur & Agra. Then it's east through Varanasi (with a possible detour up to Nepal...??) to Kolkata. Than North again to Darjeerling and back south through the Sunderbans and Orissa. Finally we'll head west to Goa, via Hampi, and fly onwards out of Mumbai.................. From there the plan is to take in a lot of SE.Asia (most especially The Philippines & Borneo!) but where we'll actually end up is ... full info

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