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City of the soaring dragon

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March 21st 2009
Welcome to Vietnam. We arrived here safely, actually met up with Philip & Elina (Austrian cousins from trek in Chaing Mai-we keep bumping into friends from earlier in hol-its so strange arriving in new city and seeing familiar face-quite nice really-we're all on similar backpacking route so its nice to exchange stories) So our 1st experience of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam-the traffic! The photos ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

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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