Some peace & quiet in Cong Vien Van Hoa Park

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

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January 24th 2008
After arriving safely on an old Tiger Airways plane (it still had ash trays!), I quickly made my way through customs, exchanged some U.S. and Australian currency into Vietnamese Dong and ventured outside to figure out how I was going to get into the heart of the city. It was at this point when I became aware of something that I had forgotten from my last trip to South East Asia - the amount of peo ... 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