Ho Chi's Mausoleum

The little fella's buried here...

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May 18th 2007
Sapa was an excellent relaxed start to Vietnam but it was time to see where people made and spent their dong in the north - Hanoi. The 10 hour train ride down was interesting for 2 reasons. One was to see the mountains give way to bright green flat rice fields and increasingly large Vietnamese towns and cities (they gotta put the 80 million conical hat wearing population somewhere), the other ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

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