Perfumed River

River traffic

February 5th 2008
While in Vietnam we took a trip up the perfumed river, which by the way smells like any other river. The trip itself was mainly by boat, rowed by tough ladies wearing what seems to be their sunday best. They have amazing endurance as the trip takes a couple of hours in each direction. They are no shrinking violets either as we discovered when we were brought to the river bank to be assigned to ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

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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Brendan and Linda Hegarty

Bren and Linda

Hi. My name is Brendan, my wife is Linda and we are both Irish, currently living in Dublin. My wife and I have always envied those young people who had the opportunity to travel after leaving school, collage etc. We ourselves went straight from school into the work place. We always told ourselves that we would make up for this by travelling after our retirements, if we made it that far. But we often asked ourselves why the pleasures of travel should only apply to the young or the old. What about us in betweens, yep thats right, the middle aged. Both of us were in the fortuna... full info

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