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Rediscovering Hanoi...

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October 15th 2014
During the first 24 hours in Hanoi we booked our trip to Ha Giang province and got our bearings one again around the streets of the old town. We arrived around lunchtime after a two and half hour flight from Kaohsuing and caught a taxi into the city. We were in Hanoi last year but didn't even notice the long colourful mosaic wall which lines the highway into the old town. It is four kilometers in ... 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