Our host family for the night

Sue - Bee's sister - and her baby pose for a picture in their house in Lao Chai village. Sus and her husband hosted us for the night. Sue is 18 and her baby is about a year old. She was about 5 months pregnant when we met her. She is a tour guide like her sister Bee. Many of the village women have large families and continue to bear children well into their 40's. They get no prenatal care and a doctor only comes to the village twice a week.

Post #11: Side trip to Sapa!

July 25th 2009
We thought it was about time to catch you up on a few side trips we took when we first hit Hanoi way back in July. Wow- that seems like a life-time ago! Our first excursion out of the city was a 4-day jaunt, by overnight train, to Sapa in northwestern Vietnam. Not knowing any better, we purchased a finely organized but over-priced tour from our hotel. Our journey started at the train station a ... 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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