A Rum and Coke Bucket

Nha Trang

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January 22nd 2009
Nha Trang - short and sweet as not much happened We arrived in Nha Trang on the afternoon of the 22nd after a relatively easy and pleasant bus journey. The views coming down from the mountains were superb with thick jungle covering all the visible faces and the valleys being contrastingly bare of foliage. Once we were dropped off we headed to the best of the cheap guest houses in the city ... 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