Last days of Hanoi Photo 5

March 14th 2009
During one of my last days in Hanoi, I spent being very cultured and touring the museums of which there are many. My first stop was to the Temple of literature. The Temple of Literature (known as "pagode des Corbeaux" during the period of French colonisation), is a temple of Confucius in Vietnam. It functioned as Vietnam's first university. It consists of five courtyards lined out in order, entra ... 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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Hello, welcome to my space on the World Wide Web where I will be keeping track of the various countries and places I visit on my travels around the world! Hopefully I should have some good tales to tell and interesting facts about where I have been haha! I hope to have mastered my new camera by the end of the trip so hopefully there will be some good pictures to accompany the stories. For the members of my family reading this, I cannot promise to update the blog with the regularity Gemma did with hers but I will do my best! N.B. For the first two weeks updates may be slow as I... full info

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