View from our Sheraton hotel room in Saigon
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War Remnants Museum
We took very few pictures inside
The Museum had a pro communist perspective and powerfully conveyed the brutal effects of war on its civilian victims
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Notre Dame Cathedral....built 1880
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Post Office: designed by Gustave Eiffel and built between 1886 and 1891
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Ho chi minh statue
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View from our hotel room
Most of the modern construction started in the 1990's!!
The lady that helped us get a VN Sim card!!
Independent Palace
The gates where the North Vietnamese tanks broke through to end the war
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The Sheraton hotel
We think the Opera House
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Huan our guide for the Cu Chi Tunnels
Bike race in Saigon
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Left over bombs and mines
Air vent for a tunnel
Village guerilla fighters......many were woman and children
A Cu Chi tunnel survivor.....fought using the tunnels for over 14 years
The red is where Agent Orange was used to defoliate the jungle
Map of the tunnels
Look how dense is the forest
A B-52 bomb crater
Kathy going into one of the tunnels
Most of the tunnel entrances/exits were cleverly camouflaged
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A bunker big enough to hold meetings
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A bamboo trap....up to 10% of the soldiers were injured in traps
We ate lunch on a small river
Our first Saigon beer.....refreshing lager!!
Menu for our dinner at Xu restaurant.....owned by Luke Nguyen, a well known Vietnamese Chef
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Kathy ready for her motor bike ride!!
Both John and Kathy ready!!
Theses were students posing for their graduation picture at the Post Office
Map of Saigon and Mekong Delta from 1936
Picture of Ho Chi Minh
The smaller building was the CIA headquarters.....remember the pictures of helicopters taking people away when the NVN army entered Saigon
Inside Notre Dame Cathedral
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Gates at Independence Palace
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Kathy and her driver
John's driver Si
And we are off
Thien Hau Chinese Buddhist Temple.....of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu
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Walking the aisles of Chinatown
Vietnamese coffee......water drips down through the grounds
Very strong and a dark, buttery taste
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