Quite a challenge!

Historic and Beautiful Hoi An

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February 25th 2012
We left Saigon on a 7pm train and settled into our 4 berth sleeper. It turned out that our compartment mates were two young women with two small kids – one probably two years old and the other around seven. It looked like we will not be bored during our train travel. We weren’t wrong, the older boy was very friendly and came down from his top bunk probably at least 10-15 times to talk to us (a ... 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