Vietnam: Clouds sweep in over Tam Dao hill station, north of Hanoi. The French developed Tam Dao as a hill station in 1907, intending it as a popular retreat from the baking plains of the Red River summer, but closer to and more accessible from Hanoi than Sapa, further to the north on the Chinese frontier. The name ‘Tam Dao’ derives from the ‘Three Islands’, which are in fact a line of three peaks, all around 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) in height, which can sometimes, but far from always, be seen rising above the surrounding clouds, like islands in a sea of mist.

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