TaPhin Village 048

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October 19th 2010
We arrived in Hanoi with just enough time to get a taxi to the train station and jump on the first available train to Lao Cai. This is the closest that a train goes to Sapa. From Lao Cai we would take a minibus a couple hours to the small hillside town of Sapa. Sapa was probably our favourite place in Vietnam, despite all the attempted scams and touristy nature of the place – we had an excellent ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Northwest » Lao Cai » Sapa

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

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