Foot Fungus ...

... while tour operators claim that Halong's waters are pristine, because all the boat supposedly store sewage in tanks and deposit it at a processing facility, others tell a different tale. With the number of boats plying the bay and the nonexistent turnaround time between cruises, I tend to believe that they would just dump it overboard. I was happy to simply dip my feet in the sea - risking foot fungus is better than risking a a rash covering my entire body!

The Message

October 22nd 2016
Geo: 20.9063, 107.082For nearly two weeks, Vietnam has been trying to deliver me a message, one of such profundity, that it is rivaled only by the depth of the Vietnamese culinary repertoire. I paid no attention to the early murmurs that started in HCMC, but they didn't stop, growing louder and louder as the days passed, until they could no longer be ignored. Vietnam's pleas had been muf ... 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

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