Lunch stop in the mountains

Sapa trek

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April 26th 2010
Arrived back in Hanoi from Halong Bay tour, repacked our bags and headed to station for the sleeper train to Sapa. There were 4 beds in a berth and we had one top and one bottom. Were pretty comfy and the other two beds had a Vietnamese woman and man in them, the woman and her mate were sitting chatting on the other bottom bunk and realised they'd been sitting on the blokes bread, they were shocke ... 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