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Craziness in Saigon

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July 24th 2009
Saigon is a crazy, crazy city! We have spent two days here and manged not to get run over by a motorbike - yet! We spent the first day walking around the city - to the war remnants museum, the reunfication palace and the ho chi minh city museum. The reunification palace (which was the South Vietnamese President's residence) was quite spectacular and has been preserved as it was since the fa ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

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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