Tân Trào banyan-tree (Cây đa Tân Trào)

At this place General Võ Nguyên Giáp read the Military Order No. 1 of the Revolution Committee on 16 August 1945 and then the revolutionaries moved on to Hanoi. On 19 August 1945 the August Revolution against French and Japanese was successful. (Tại đây, đồng chí Võ Nguyên Giáp đọc bản Quân lệnh số 1 của Ủy ban khởi nghĩa, chỉ huy đơn vị giải phóng quân tiến sang giải phóng Thái Nguyên và tiến về Hà Nội)

Tuyên Quang (North East - Part 1)

June 3rd 2012
The photos in this blog were taken on my two trips to Tuyên Quang province in April and May this year. My travel companions on both trips were Vietnamese tourists and we spent very short time in the province. On the first trip (14 April) we went through the province and traveled up north to Hà Giang (the northernmost province of Vietnam) along the Lô river. On the way we visited three temples ( ... 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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