Dalat-Phan Rang: neverending windy, steep dugout roads, and their inevitable effect...
November 28th 2012 We decided our first beach destination would be Phang Rang-Thap Cham, a small stretch of beach more popular with the Vietnamese and not marketed to Western tourists, conveniently located straight down the mountain from Dalat. We heard the road from Dalat was in bad shape, but it was beyond anything we could have imagined. We didn't get the earliest of starts, but we never could have anticipate
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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 
