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Ho Chi Minh City aka Saigon

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August 12th 2010
Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam, it's home to just over 8 million people, and 7 million scooters, if you believe a tour guide that we had. We arrived on Sunday morning at 6am, just in time to find a bed and get back the coupe hours of sleep I didn't get on the 5 hour bus from Mui Ne. Football was the plan for today, we were going to watch Navibank Saigon play Kho Trang. We paid 100,000 ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City » District 1

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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