HCMC street scene

Different speed

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January 9th 2007
Hi! As the internet cafe we are sitting in here has a very slow connection, you have to wait for the photos of hongkong and Ho Chi Minh City - sorry. As my lovely wife suffers from a bad stomach today, we had to postpone our Mekong Delta Tour, which should have started this morning, to tomorrow. But now there is time to write a new entry. On the 5th of January in the evening we took the plan ... 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