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July 22nd 2007
We spent our first day here touring the usual Hanoi sites. The most interesting was probably Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, where the revolutionary leader has been preserved since is death in 1969. (sorry, no pictures allowed) The irony is that he specifcally said that he wanted his resting place to be modest and without fuss. I now has a huge building and courtyards, with a changing of the guard cerem ... read more

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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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Henry Dunbar

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I am 43 and live with my family in Northern Virginia, VA, USA (near Washington, DC). In the 1990s, my wife Debbie Hill (age unknown) and I adopted three children from three different countries. Our children are Nam, 16, from Vietnam; Rachel, 14, from Sri Lanka; and Lydia, 9, from India. In the summer of 2007, we are visiting their birth countries for a week+ each, and have side visits with friends in Spain and Australia on each end of the trip. We will take the unusual family summer vacation of completely circling the globe. This trip is meant to be cultural and educational, and not an attempt... full info

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