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Sixth & Seventh Week in Vietnam - Hoi An & Ho Chi Minh Trail

March 12th 2012
The Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) to Hanoi railway connection to Mui Ne, the beach resort where we stayed a month, is about an hour’s drive into the countryside. We arrived a couple of hours early in sweltering heat. In the cool, high-ceilinged, mostly empty station Darla had an orange drink but it took me two cold beers to lower my body temperature. At 75 cents for a beer, cost is never part of the deci ... 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

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