Train through Vietnam

Bun Fight at the Hoi An interchange

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May 21st 2010
Hello friends, at last the final installment of our Asia trip. We are now in the South of France taking a well earned break!!! (I can feel your groans from here!). It was another early morning when we departed Quy Nohn for Hoi An and the bus trip was scenic but uneventful, or so we thought! We stopped for morning tea at the roadside (a “happy break”) and I started talking to a monk who was ... 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