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"No Drawing on the Stalactites" - Halong Bay, Vietnam

March 11th 2008
The next day, we easily withdraw money at the bank and arrive at the port to depart on our boat trip. The bay is crowded with handsome wooden “junk” boats at noon, unloading and picking up passengers. Running in to some travellers who took the boat we should have been on, we hear horror stories. Everything the businessman told them and sold them was a lie. Their trip was much shorter than expe ... 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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