Messed up 1

Tough travels in Vietnam

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February 25th 2008
Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse after the bus ride from Hell... We arrived in Vinh and we're dropped of at a random street somewhere. As our guidebook didn't say anything about the place, we didn't have a clue of where we were and where we should be going and we didn't have any Vietnamese currency, only a few US dollars. A small comfort was the fact that we weren't the only ones wi ... read more

Asia » Vietnam

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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