Miss Saigon cocktail

Vietnam - Saigon (Ho Chi Minhn City) and Phu Quoc

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October 28th 2009
Saigon -HCMC We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) or Saigon at around 2pm after a pretty reasonable bus journey. The locals still like to call it Saigon because the Southern Vietnamese are not as communist as the northern and prefer not to call it HCMC, which is what is was named after the fall of Saigon over 30 years ago. It is a massive city and the centre of all the commerce and fi ... 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