Muddy scenes

Sapa - Fog, mud, fog & more mud!

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March 26th 2008
Sapa - Jan 08 We were sad to leave China in the end, it had been a superb 7 weeks. The places we had really looked forward to such as Hong Kong and Beijing were as good as expected , but our favourites were places such as Yangshou and Lijiang which we had never heard of before visiting China. We made our way from Lijiang to Kunming on overnight bus and then another overnight bus took us to the ... 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