"Damn you Dien Bien Phu is what cath and I have been thinking to ourselves today as we prepare for another night in D.B.P whilst try to get to Hanoi..... I will start from the begin ..."
"I'm about to travel through Laos and I decide that I don't want to backtrack, so I'm flying up to Dien Bien Phu, taking a taxi to the border, and crossing. I've made some contacts ..."
"Day 2 - Lao Chai to Dien Bien Phu 8 Hrs 7am start and we took a little detour to a local market. We were the local curiosity, attracting strange looks at first...but it didn't take ..."
"I arrived in Dien Bien Phu much earlier as planned. No one knows in what condition the roads are here, in the northwest of the country. Well, I know now that they are o.k. - I mean ..."
"I began at the southern bus station in Hanoi at 5AM catching a public minibus north. The schedule is 8 hrs and the route is west to Hoa Binh, north to Son La and finally north west ..."
"Hi everyone! I've been bloody lazy on the blog lately. Is it a Vietnam syndrom?! It might be!! Well, the thing is I've been spreading (or just victim of) a very negative energ ..."
"Nous sommes repartis de Sapa a 6h du matin, dans la brume et sous la pluie, c'est-a-dire le temps qu'on etait suppose avoir. En sachant qu'on nous a dit qu'il pleuvait encore jusqu ..."
"Here we are then, Dien Bien Phu. Part of collective memory in Vietnam and maybe also France, although they'd rather forget. Again ripped off in the bus from Lai Chai to DBP. But th ..."
"We spent $150 to rent a ten-passenger, air-conditioned van and driver to go from Sa Pa to Dien Bien Phu. It was a scenic, nine-hour drive on a semi-paved road, though we had ..."
"This border was open to foreigner just this year and, if I had no information about a Portuguese who crossed this border last summer, I should say I was the first Portuguese t ..."
Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam
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