Moon over the Khanh Hoa Bay

23rd March - Nha Trang to Na Dang

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March 24th 2008
Today we traveled 2 hours to the Nha Trang airport. The countryside is absolutely beautiful. Vietnam is so diverse, with the old mixed with the new. Traditional dress mixed with modern clothing. We passed rice paddies with workers wearing their nonla and harvesting the rice by hand. Bullocks pulling wooden drays, with the rice sheaths loaded to the point of falling off, along the same roads buse ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » South Central Coast » Quảng Nam » Hoi An

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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