After our late arrival last night, today was the first time we had the chance to look around Ho Chi Minh City, which is also known as Saigon, and is the largest city in Vietnam. In the morning we had a walk around the city taking in all the sights and sounds.
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| The Opera House |
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| The Peoples Committee Building |
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| Statue of Ho Chi Minh |
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| Norte Dame cathedral |
The traffic is crazy but as there are more cars in Ho Chi Minh City than in Hanoi it is harder to cross the roads - motorbikes will go round you but cars seem to aim right for you! We have also found that motorbikes drive on the pavement a lot so you are dodging them on the road AND on the paths!
As we had a big breakfast we skipped lunch and instead had a delicious icecream from a place called Fanny's!
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| Fanny's Icecream! |
This afternoon we went to the War Remnants museum - It is one of the most popular in the city and one of the most sobering and thought provoking museums I have ever been too. It highlights the suffering of the Vietnamese people at the hands of the French and American forces up until 1975. Obviously it was very one sided but the photographs of the injured, disabled and dead were both very shocking and upsetting. Understandably I didn't take any photos at the museum but some people were which surprised me as some of the things we saw you really don't want to see again.
In the evening we went for drinks and dinner at the roof top bar at the Carvelle Hotel. We went just before sunset and enjoyed sitting out on the balcony overlooking the city as the darkness came over the city - a lovely evening for our final one in Vietnam. Peter managed to knock his knife over the edge - thankfully there was a safety barrier just below us that caught the knife otherwise someone could have ended up being stabbed in the head 10 floors down!
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| View of Saigon at dusk |
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| On the balcony of the rooftop bar |
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| Massive cocktail - hic! |
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