Tomb

Hue

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March 11th 2008
We got a bus from Hoi An to Hue taking about 3 hours and stopping en route at the Marble Mountains. It was a whistle stop tour of Hue as we are running out of time in Vietnam!! We took a day tour of the city which included the Citadel and the tombs of the Nguyen dynasty. I took a photo of Chris at the Citadel and a Vietnamese man started to speak to us about where we were from etc. A woman that ... read more

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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