Boat and cliff

VietNam

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March 15th 2008
We left for Vietnam at the start of the Lunar New Year (biggest travel date of the year) the expectation was for 180 million people to be moving about the country over the course of 10 days. We were also leaving in the midst of a 50 year winter storm (which for Shanghai meant ~5cm of snow and the closing of schools for four days), this storm had stranded just under one million people at the train ... 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