A History Lesson in Ho Chi Minh City
December 23rd 2011 Aoife and I arrived in Ho Chi Minh city, the largest city in Vietnam, on December 2nd after a brutal ten hour journey from DaLat. The city was formally known as Saigon, prior to the "fall of Saigon" or the "liberation of Saigon" depending on who is writing the history books. Saigon was the capital city of South Vietnam until April 30th1975 when the city fell to North Vietnamese troops,
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