festive orange tree

"Chuc mung nam moi!"

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January 28th 2009
We wander through the streets in the early evening on our way to dinner, past stages set up all round the Hoan Kiem Lake, which is lit with hundreds of multi coloured lights and lazers roam across the sky and water. Everywhere I look are orange trees covered in fairy lights...the Vietnamese Tet version of our Christmas tree. We've had a few laughs this week watching people wobble up the road with ... 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