Blowing Centre

Day 3 - Central Highlands - BMT

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May 18th 2009
18 May 2009 After breakfast and talking to family on Skype (WiFi at the Spring is great) we went to fulfill another of Kim’s wishes - to see the site of the old American Embassy. Coincidentally the photographer who took the famous photo of people climbing the stairs to get on the last choppers to leave Saigon, at the end of the war, died this week. It was only four or five blocks from the hot ... 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