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"moped to marble mountai"

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October 5th 2008
A great trip to fill our morning!! We hired Mopeds with some of our group and headed off on the 40min ride out to a huge mountain called marble mountain which is pretty self explanatory. It was a warm drive but if you kept your speed up you managed to stay cool in the breeze. Once we arrived we took some time to look around at the marble carvings made at the base of the mountain, there were some ... 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