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Mekong Delta Tour

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June 14th 2012
First some advise about these tours...basically they are all the same!!! We walked around HCM visiting a number of travel agencies to pick out a tour that suited us. There were some marginal differences in price but we eventually settled on a 3 day trip which ended with a slow boat across the Vietnamese border and up the Mekong to Phnom Penn in Cambodia. We also decided to do a home stay in the Me ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Mekong River Delta » Can Tho

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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