Hoan Kiem Lake

Good Morning Vietnam!!

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March 4th 2008
I am picked up by my hotel at the airport and already on the way from the airport to the hotel, it is obvious I am somewhere new! I can see the women working the rice fields wearing the cone-shaped straw tent-type hats as they are bent over swinging their arms back and forth. Then a motorcycle goes whizzing by with 3 huge pigs strapped to the back! Yes, that's right! And the pigs must've been ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

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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