Reunification Palace

Ho Chi Minh City Tour

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May 14th 2005
This morning we started our guided tour of Ho Chi Minh City. We did it through a company called Happy Tours, and it included free breafast and lunch. And all the representatives were nice and helpful, so just thought I'd recommend them to any other travellers in the area. Anyways, we started the tour by visiting some sort of Pagoda. I didn't catch the name of it. Actually, I didn't catch much o ... 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