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Tag: Con Dao

A Surprise Typhoon on Con Dao

Posted on January 21, 2018February 18, 2018 by Carly Vietnam

A typhoon usually doesn’t just sneak up on you. But that’s exactly what happened to me last Christmas Eve, when my husband and I unwittingly traveled to the Vietnamese island of Con Dao the day before a roaring typhoon was scheduled to hit. Here’s a story about taking cover in the eye of tomorrow’s unknown.

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