Vietnamese Soldiers

In the back roads near the DMZ this truck load of conscripts had so much fun trailing us that they threw us their hats and badges as souvenirs!

Biking the DMZ - destination, LAOS

February 2nd 2007
Day 247, 2nd February DMZ at coast - Truong Son - Cam Lo Nick and Rory woke us at 7.30am after their camping suareé in the DMZ, they’d not been blown up by un-exploded stuff, and we were on the road just afterwards. We looked on the nearby Ben Hai estuary, and beyond to the south was and endless white sandy beach stretching into South Vietnam. As we were looking south, we notice that the ... read more

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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

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