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Hue and the Royal Tombs of the Nguyen Dynasty

April 8th 2009
Leaving Aaron still sick in bed, I decided to venture out and see the daylight. Not feeling quite up to dealing with....well, anything, I went on an organised trip to go tomb-hunting and city-traipsing. Hue was once the Imperial City of the Ngyuen Dynasty, which lasted until roughly the middle of the last century, when basically everyone in the world decided to invade the Vietnamese (Thais, Japane ... read more
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Vietnamese Flag 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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