Đường Stratégique, Số 25, Chasseloup-Laubat, Hồng Thập Tự, Xô Viết Nghệ Tĩnh, Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai
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Đường Stratégique, Số 25, Chasseloup-Laubat, Hồng Thập Tự, Xô Viết Nghệ Tĩnh, Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai

Theo mô tả của ông Jules Boissiere năm 1874: “Sài Gòn có sáu đại lộ (boulevard), 40 đường (route/rue)”. Ngoài 5 đại lộ – Đại lộ Nguyễn Huệ (tên thời thuộc Pháp Charner), Đại lộ Lê Lợi (Bonard), Đại lộ Hàm Nghi (La Somme), Đại lộ Lê Duẩn (Norodom), Đại lộ Tôn Đức Thắng (La…

UNESCO World Heritage Sites I’ve Visited
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites I’ve Visited

As of June 2023, I’ve been to 21 world heritage sites of the world. However, I can’t find my Halong Bay  photos that I took on 2007-10-22, thanks to the shutdown of WebShots :(. Among these sites, my most fav ones are in Sichuan, China. I so love nature there. I always wish to revisit…

Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 4: O Quy Ho Mountain Pass (Lao Cai)
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Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 4: O Quy Ho Mountain Pass (Lao Cai)

It was raining in the morning which prevented us from going outside early as we expected. However, we were lucky that the rain stopped around 9 AM. We headed out to rent 2 motorbikes at a nearby hotel, then straight to the Ô Quý Hồ peak. We passed “Thác Bạc” (Silver Waterfall) but then we…

Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 2: Ham Rong Mountain And The Sapa Stone Church
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Sapa – Tam Coc, Day 2: Ham Rong Mountain And The Sapa Stone Church

Around 5:30 AM, we reached the Lao Cai train station. Even though there’s a person to pick us up, we had to wait for about an hour for the coach to Sapa to depart (maybe because the hotel needed to pick up passengers for another train which left later than ours). We checked in and…