Inside Ho Lao Prison

Vietnam Part 1 - Castaway Tour & Hanoi

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March 20th 2013
We've been travelling really intensely these past few weeks, really packing a lot of things into our days so naturally I haven't had any time to sit at a computer and write a blog for a while. Out of the past eight nights, five of them have been spent on overnight sleeper buses! I seem to be leafing further and further back in my journel to find what I want to write about so I thought I ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

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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