"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime."
Mark Twain

A Day in the Life of Hanoi

Posted by Liz Caffrey in 20 Mar, 2007   
in Stories

At 5:30 in the morning we arrive in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, on the night train from Sapa, a hill-station in the north of Vietnam. We step bleary-eyed out into the gray drizzle and into the swarm of taxi drivers. We find one who will use the meter, and have him take us to […]

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