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You don’t need a history book to learn something about Vietnam’s past. You’ll do just fine with a city map that encourages you to read the street signs.

Twenty-four years after its publication, a book by a visiting Viet Kieu — an overseas Vietnamese — suggests the culture hasn’t changed much in the subsequent generation.

Two historical sites in Phnom Penh recall the terrible reign of the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian Genocide of the late s.

Once the largest city in Southeast Asia, Angkor is now a World Heritage Site of more than 1, ruins, beginning with Angkor Wat, a religious structure like no other.

Two old pals reunite for three weeks exploring some of Vietnam&#;s urban and rural environments &#; big city to beaches, highlands and history.

A tour of the Cù Chi Tunnels gives insight into how the North Vietnamese Army won its war against the South and its American allies.

Through periods of freedom and suppression, Vietnamese art continues to make an impression as it reveals culture and history to a curious world.

Vietnam’s capital city serves up history and religion on a walk past West Lake to the Ba Dinh district.

Three institutions in the nation’s capital offer carefully sculpted perspectives on the history of Vietnam.

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