South East Asia on steroids 3. Good morning Vietnam!, calling from the balcony in my room at Jonathan's, Saigon

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July 27th 2009
Day 391: Saturday 25th July - Staying in a $2 million colonial mansion The border crossing between Cambodia and Vietnam goes remarkably smoothly, the bus conductor does a lot of the admin work for you and amazingly I don’t have to pay any bribe money to cross borders. Just over 6 hours after leaving Phnom Penh, I’m in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City as it is now known. My first experience of Vie ... 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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