Lady selling fruit in Hanoi

Vietnam October 22nd - November 6th

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November 13th 2010
25 hours on a sleeper bus later, its ‘Good Morning Vietnam’! Following positive recommendations we headed to the Hanoi backpacker’s hostel, this was to be our first dorm room. We checked into a 10 bed dorm, which might sound a lot but with our new travelling companions Mat and Amber (who we’d met first tubing and then again on the overnight bus) we took up 6 beds. We found a bar two doo ... read more

Asia » Vietnam

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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