Saigon

Flowing chaos....

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January 12th 2007
Despite some of the scams in the Kingdom of Cambodia I have to say that the people were really nice and that I wish I had spent more time there. For some reason everyone says that there are no ATMs (while hard to find, there are actually ATMs) and so we had prepared ourselves to only spend a brief amount of time in the country. Thus the only scheduled stop after our brief visit at Siem Reap was ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

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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