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July 10th 2007
man that was hard work!!!! we have just come back from a home stay on the mekong river and ohhhhhh my gosh i've got a sore back. we travelled all day on a bike, passed rice fields and coconut candy factories for what..... we had a 2 hour bus ride from ho-chi-minh city to get to MyTho which is south of HCMC and then we took a 15 minute boat ride to the first island on the mekong delta where we ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta

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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