White Villa

hung Phan

Lang Son province, Vietnam. the beauty of a rural woman selling homemade rice cakes filled with black sugar at the market.

The weekend retreat of French governor Paul Doumer (later a French president), this gorgeous, grand colonial-era residence has extensive gardens bursting with frangipani. The interior is oddly empty (besides the odd piece of furniture and some Ming pottery retrieved from shipwrecks off the coast). It sits about 30m above the road, up a winding lane.

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