Tracks Through Poverty

Hanoi and Halong Bay

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July 6th 2010
Hanoi is a city of motor cycles. At every turn they are there, you can’t escape it. The fact that we would be home in a week started to sink in and we spent our time wandering the streets, not really seeing, feeling numb thinking that a whole year has gone by. Did I really do all these things? What will it be like to go home again? Have I changed? Am I now this great mature and worldly person I ... 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