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  • Bear Rescue Center Vietnam

    Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 08:37 in bears, vietnam

    This bear rescue center is about an hour outside Hanoi. The center has moon bears and sun bears - both species kept on bile farms in Vietnam and China. A couple of bears at the center were missing arms and/or were blind due to the conditions they wer...

  • Hanoi Opera House

    Posted on Sunday September 14th, 2008 at 06:43 in vietnam, hanoi

    Built by the French between 1901 and 1911, the Hanoi Opera House is one of the city's most famous landmarks.The building is of historical importance as in August 1945 the Viet Minh communists announced from the main balcony of the building that they ...