My Son

January 19th 2009
I don't have anything particularly exciting to talk about at the moment. We have been doing the touristy thing for the last couple of days. This morning we went out to My Son (pronounced Mee Sun), an important ruin of the Cham people, a once powerful Hindu Empire and also a UNESCO site. It is billed as a 'serene and spiritual" experience. Well it is pretty hard to have a serene experience when ... 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

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Diana

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Well, well, well, what to do, what to do? To blog or not to blog, that is the question. In July 2010 I lost my life partner and good travel buddy Don. Together we had some amazing adventures and I was pretty sure that after he died that would be the end of adventure travel for me. I just couldn't imagine tackling far flung places without him. Buuuut, you know what, my love of travel won out and I am off again. For my first adventure without Don, I am travelling with my daughter-in-law's dad, Klaus. He lost his wife at the same time as I lost Don. India was a country he had always wanted to... full info

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