Hiking up a misty mountain

Easy Riding in the Hills

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July 23rd 2006
The 5.30pm, seven hour bus trip to Dalat from Saigon was cancelled (a blessing in disguise), so I took a morning flight the next day. This worked out well because I had a good night out at Lush in Saigon, and I avoided what I later heard was a rough, long bus ride through the winding mountain roads. Dalat is a small city in the south central highlands of Vietnam, a few hundred miles northeast o ... 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