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Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh

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November 13th 2008
Hi everyone! Well we arrived in Ho Chi Minh after a bit of an eventful trip! The excitement started before we had even left Melbourne as we discovered that the flight we had booked on Air Asia was the inaugural flight out of Melbourne. This meant that a. The signs telling us when and where to check in were wrong b. The Check in system was ENTIRELY manual. And I mean entirely...they had to ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

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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