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Day 33 Saturday June 6, 2009

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June 6th 2009
Day 33 Saturday June 6, 2009 We arrived in Hanoi at 5 am (too early) and exited the train station to a mob of taxi drivers (see a pattern here?). We felt like lambs in a pack of wolves. We told a cabbie we needed to go to My Dinh bus station and he said that it was too far and that he would take us to another one that would get us to our destination of Halong Bay, yeah right. We tried to shake ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Northeast » Quang Ninh » Halong Bay

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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