Hotel courtyard

Hue

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March 4th 2008
Tuesday Mar 4 in Hue It's 2:40 Tuesday afternoon here ( I mostly do that for myself cause I've lost all track of which day it is ) and we are in the city of Hue on the banks of the Perfume River. We stayed in this same hotel ( The Saigon Morin) when we were last here in 2006! At that time we saw what we thought was the most spectacular rainstorm imaginable (turned out it was the predecesor of ... 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