Saturday, February 5, 2011

Ho Chi Minh (aka Saigon)

While in Saigon, we took our first night to explore the city around our Hotel (Madame Cuc's). We made friends with a fellow Canadian traveler, and went bar hopping for an evening. Not really any pics to show from this excursion. Who wants to see a buch of bar pics displaying the seedy underbelly of a city... It was fun though.

Our second day was spent exploring some of the more significant landmarks, including a central par, the War Remnants Museum and Notre Dame.

The two days following that, we headed out for a two day tour of the Mekong River by a series of boats.



A pic from the park




Outside the museum, are displays of the US war machine used in Vietnam, along with some of the pidly equipment used by the Viet Kong.




A propaganda poster in the museum. Once inside we did not take pictures of very much. Many of the displays were difficult to look at. That war was really sad.



Notre Dame




Inside Notre Dame (notice all the T.V. screens). V and I sat through about 30min of service. The singing of the choir (and the priest) was fantastic.



Stay tuned for our trip up the Mekong...

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