Hanoi - Tomb Raiders, Rickshaw Wrecking, and Gay Love-Sick German Bikepackers!
January 24th 2007 Day 236, 22nd January
Hanoi
The Mai Phuong Hostel isn’t a bad place really. A good breakfast and a cuppa is always nice first thing in the morning. And if I don’t want their breakfast, there’s a sandwich maker a few streets away who does good French bread with fried eggs popped in. The bad thing with that is that I have to negotiate the market where they are stir-frying insects and slici
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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 
