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Dalat

January 8th 2008
The inland, mountainous town of Dalat has many attractions and we saw the lot of them pretty much in one day. Dalat is one of the only towns in Vietnam which entirely escaped bombing during the war and so you get a real feel for the French influenced Vietnam from pre-1945. We must've walked miles and miles up and down the streets of this town in one day. We saw the markets (huge), the Crazy Hou ... read more
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Vietnamese Flag 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
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