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French Ghost Town and the Mekong River Delta

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July 29th 2007
24-29 July Headed out from Phnom Penh by bus to Kampot, in SE Cambodia, to see the Elephant Mountains and experience a much slower pace of Cambodian life in the sleepy riverside town. There's not too much going on in Kampot, but we headed out to "town" nonetheless to see for ourselves. After a couple futile attempts to find much of anything happening, we ended up reading up on further travel op ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta » Can Tho

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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