View from the river side

Hue and the perfume river

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June 28th 2009
Woke up on the train to funny music being played with messages over the trains radio. We checked into the Asia hotel and then dashed to our sightseeing tour with hardly enough time for a shower. We took a dragon boat down the Perfume river (so called as flowers used to flow down from upstream and make the river smell like perfume) We visited a pagoda and a king's tomb. By this time it was about ... 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