Vietnam Archive

  • Cu Chi Tunnel – Vietnam

    Cu Chi Tunnel – Vietnam

    It was lunch time when we left Cao Dai temple so we had a 20-minute rest in the commissioned restaurant of the company before we traveled another hour and half to Cu Chi district. We passed plantations of rubber trees and lush surroundings that indicate little evidence of the intense fighting, bombing and destruction that [...]

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  • Cao Dai Temple – Tay Ninh Vietnam

    Cao Dai Temple – Tay Ninh Vietnam

    Caodaism (Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do, or Third Great Universal Religious Amnesty) is a syncretic religion that had its beginnings in Vietnam, then part of French Indo-China, in the 1920s. Its founder, Ngo Minh Chieu (or Ngo Van Chieu), was a French civil servant and was also a mystic who was well-versed in western [...]

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  • Mekong Delta Tour – Vietnam

    Mekong Delta Tour – Vietnam

    The Mekong River is one of the world’s 10th rivers in its river length and has great influences upon nature and societies of the Indo-china Peninsula. The name “MEKONG” originate in Thai language, Mae Nam Khong1). The source of the Mekong River is in Tibet mountains and is called Dza Chu River (River of Rock). [...]

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  • Ho Chi Minh City Tour – Vietnam

    Ho Chi Minh City Tour – Vietnam

    I was more nervous than excited in this trip because it was my first time to travel abroad with no friends waiting for me in the airport and to show me around. I didn’t book any hotel either and focus most of my research on Bangkok which was my next pit stop after Saigon. Fortunately, [...]

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