Beautiful Saigon

Culture Change

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February 7th 2012
We're here! We made it to Seoul, South Korea, on an enormous Boeing 777, completely full, with good flight attendants and service. Korean Air must have had a dozen flight attendants for coach alone. We went through the dreaded body scanners at Atlanta -- no worse than walking through the old metal scanners. The first flight lasted 15 hours and I started to squirm at about 5 hours. The second ( ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City » District 1

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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