Mastodawn

Golden terraces. Hairpin turns. 370km of pure Vietnam magic on two wheels 🏔🛵✨

One Motorcycle. These Mountains. Four Days That'll Change How You Travel Vietnam Forever

The Ha Giang Loop delivers what Instagram can't capture—the raw, unfiltered Vietnam hidden in the far north. Ride 370km through golden terraced …

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Marya The BeauTraveler May 11

Sapa looks like Europe but costs like Southeast Asia. That's the Indochina difference 🏔✨

This French Colonial Hill Station in Vietnam Costs $20 a Night—Here's the Catch

Sapa's European architecture and misty mountain views feel like the Alps, but with terraced rice fields and backpacker prices. This guide covers 24 …

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Ardor May 8

„Der große Sieg des vietnamesischen Volkes in #DienBienPhu ist keineswegs nur ein Sieg für #Vietnam. An der Möglichkeit dieses Dien-Bien-Phu konnte kein Kolonisierter mehr zweifeln.“ Frantz Fanon. 8. Mai 1954 Niederlage des französischen Kolonialregimes. #Indochina #VietMinh #HoChiMinh

Marya The BeauTraveler May 4

🚌 Fell asleep in Pakse, woke up in Vientiane — for only $16!

Could This Be the Smartest Way to Travel Across Laos?

The VIP sleeper bus from Pakse to Vientiane runs overnight for just $16 and comes with more than you'd expect. Here's a firsthand account of what …

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French Cinema & Subtitles Apr 21

🎬 La 317ème section (1965)

Subtitles available:
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
🇬🇷 Greek
🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇪🇸 Spanish

⬇️ Download https://app.box.com/s/mlvld72o5u3o9sdscnfsr9pddnah0ug9

🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058886/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://hydracker.com/titles/17491/la-317eme-section

#La317emeSection #war #drama #military #PierreSchoendoerffer #Indochina #cinema #France #classicfilm

Marya The BeauTraveler Apr 11

Crossed from Vietnam to Cambodia by land for just $10 — here's how it went! 🛻🌏

The Vietnam-Cambodia Land Border Nobody Really Talks About

Crossing from Vietnam to Cambodia by land via Ha Tien is one of the more budget-friendly options — but it comes with surprises. From a decent first …

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tastemyglaive Mar 26

Long queues at gas stations in Pattaya, Thailand due to energy crisis caused by American Israeli war on Iran. – PressTV

https://lemmy.ml/post/45035147

tastemyglaive Mar 25

Vietnam's gas prices remain lower than Cambodia and Laos, pretty level with China. Self-sufficiency mechanisms should be viewed as a security measure by all nations.

https://lemmy.ml/post/44979127

Vietnam's gas prices remain lower than Cambodia and Laos, pretty level with China. Self-sufficiency mechanisms should be viewed as a security measure by all nations. - Lemmy

> Size & extent of the present crisis assessed to exceed '70s oil shocks. I’m not watching the leaderboard. I have a great deal of concern for everyone involved. That being said, here is the leaderboard: - Cambodia (applying subsidies): gasoline ~35,600 VND / liter, diesel 44,200 VND / liter - China (price controls applied): ~34,600 VND / liter, diesel ~31,600 VND / liter. - Laos: gasoline ~47,600 VND / liter, diesel 41,100 VND / liter. - Vietnam is as follows: 10% ethanol + gasoline ~27,177 VND / liter, gasoline ~30,690 VND / liter, diesel 33,420 VND / liter.

PugJesus Mar 16

French colonial administrator atop an elephant, Cambodia, 1896

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1883189/french-colonial-administrator-atop-an-elephant-cambodia-1896

Ms. Que Banh Mar 8

#Revolutionaries behind the 1908 Hanoi Poison Plot detained at the Hoa Lo Prison by the French colonists in 1941.

13 of them had their heads chopped off instantly and displayed in public. The French later used the photo for an #Indochina #propaganda postcard.

Whilst the second world war was raging across the world, in Vietnam the #VietMinh #Liberation Movement, led by famed revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, was taking birth. #HoChiMinh had one dream. An independent Vietnam free of foreign rule.

The first year after the war had Japan, and then Britain keen to get their hands on Vietnam. But they were soon replaced by Vietnam’s old colonial rulers: the French.

For nine long years, thereafter, from 1946 to 1954 the First Indochina War ripped across the country. Spilling blood, lives, and peace. On one side were the French. More adamant to stay. More aggressive in their rule. They were helped by the US who provided advisers, funding, and weapons from behind the scenes.
Anti-communist Vietnamese loyalists aided the French rulers’ legitimacy. On the other side was Ho Chi Minh and his revolutionaries.

Things eventually came to a head in 1954 with the Geneva Conference and creation of the 17th Parallel, a Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] on 17 degrees latitude north.

#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #VietnamRevolutionaries #LongLiveVietnam #WarSurvivorsForPeace #VietnamHistory #ForeignInvaders #VietnamRevolution #geopolitics #WWII #GlobalSouth #SouthEastAsia #ASEAN #WorldHistory #LearnHistory #Courage #ResistanceFighters #historicalPhotos