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Going underground in Saigon

January 9th 2010
After my stint of R&R in Mui Ne, I was ready to get back into things in Saigon. I didn't really know much about the place, other than that it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victorious North Vietnamese after taking it from the South in 1975. Just a word on that though... HCMC is the name of the wider urban area, but the centre is still known as Saigon, and most locals still use this name. So I ... read more
Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnamese Flag 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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