View from our hotel room balcony

Cat Ba Island

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July 7th 2010
The wireless in our new hotel doesn’t quite reach us on the sixth floor so we’ve had to wait to update at a cafe with wifi. Day 1: Adventures to Cat Ba Alarm mishap - around 630 am I started to get the feeling that we missed our 520am alarm... so we didn’t get to take the 2nd earliest bus out to Cat Ba. We decided that since we were still up early to go look for this place that we could b ... 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