Hue - winner of the dirtiest street award!

Dalat, Hoi An & Hue

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May 4th 2011
Our final morning in Saigon was a rather slow affair as we had already done many of the sights close to the hotel, meaning that all we had to do was pack up our stuff and look forward to the bus ride to Dalat, a city up in the hills of Centrel Vietnam, with a colonial feel to it. Compared to many of the bus journeys we had taken so far in Vietnam the ride to Dalat was a slow, if rather enjoyabl ... 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