Mr Yay drilling the facts into us.

Run DMZ

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April 28th 2010
Another clunking sleeper train takes us south from Hanoi, about halfway down the country to Hue. An 18-hour beast of a journey. We wake about 5am to see the sun rising out of the window, flat green ricefields, people already up working in them. We rattle into Hue about midday. Hue is another walled and moated city, but a bit more relaxed than Hanoi (if Hanoi is London, then Hue is York). We cyc ... 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