Tag: historic site

Myth and Legend Halong Bay FI

Dragons, Sea Snakes and Poetry in Halong Bay

“So, this myth”, I asked the tour guide, “about the dragons. Where does it come from? Did anyone ever write it down?” He smiled and looked at me with raised eyebrows, the way you’d look at a small child who asks something cute, like are the sun and the moon brother and sister, and said,…
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Imperial Citadel of Thang Long in Hanoi

I loved Hanoi in all its noisy, congested glory and spent many hours wandering, deftly avoiding death by motorbike, on the streets of the Old Quarter, but after a while I felt like I could do with a bit of tranquility and a history lesson somewhere green. This led me to the Imperial Citadel of Thang…
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