Bamboo!!

Hanoi - Day 3

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January 29th 2007
Today we had planned to get through a whole lot of the tourist sites such as the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Army Museum, the Hanoi Hilton and some pagodas (temples). We launched ourselves out of bed 40 minutes after we were meant to get up which seemed like it might actually have been a good thing because according to Lonely Planet most of those places are closed on Mondays. We decided that we would w ... 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