Selyf carrying corn

visiting Vu's village

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August 7th 2006
When I returned to Sapa after climbing Mt Fansipan all I wanted to do was relax the next day, but I found myself with an offer way too good to refuse - a Hmong girl called Vu who I had befriended in Sapa before I went on the Fansipan trip invited me to her village to help pick corn for her family!! I was really surprised and touched, while she worked in Sapa selling souveneirs to foreigners, she w ... 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