Sydney Opera House

Visas, Tickets and a Harbour Cruise

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December 3rd 2008
We head down early to the Viet Nam consulate to pick up the visas. When we get there, they seem not to be able to find our stuff and at one point have three people looking for them. As this included our passports, this is a bit disconcerting. Finally the find them, but when we look at them we realize that we may end up going Thursday and that the visas aren't valid early enough. Fortunately, they ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more