Hoi An, we miss this city Photo 12

Hoi An, we miss this city

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November 27th 2010
"No, I won't do any shopping", Steffi said days before we arrived in Hoi An. But the truth is different! After we arrived in the morning dawn, we checked in a hotel and went to the old part of Hoi An. It was lovely compared to the other big, and hectic cities we've seen so far in Vietnam. Old colonial houses, not many cars and motorbikes, a few narrow streets being blocked for motorbikes and ju ... 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