View from My Room

Hanoi - my last city

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November 28th 2006
Hurrah and Huzzah, I'm finally in Hanoi, the last city, the last big destination of this trip, unless you count Melbourne in January but that's another story. Funnily enough two of the 'idiots' from my last night bus were on the night bus again, but such people when they don't have an audience, are thankfully less full of themselves. Bit of an ordeal, some local chap threw up several times, wor ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

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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