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Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)

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December 8th 2009
So after a hot, sweaty, bus ride with the tiny beds again and fearing for a lived for most of the journey because of the crazy driving, we finally arrived in Saigon at 5.30am Saturday morning, only 3 hours before we told we would arrived. Surprisingly the city was in full swing, all the locals exercising out in the parks, markets up and running bustling with customers, roads filled with all the c ... 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