Village school visit

CYCLING VIETNAM Blog#4

---

May 12th 2011
Cycling Vietnam Blog #4 Of the population of 86m people, 10,000 are killed on the roads here each year with an unknown number injured. I thought that figure sounded conservative from what we've seen and with the population growing at 1.2m per year, the fatality rate is only going to get worse; espeially as more people become affluent enough to buy cars. As a group we are all getting stro ... read more

Asia » Vietnam

---

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