Vietnam History Museum Ho Chi Minh City

2 Nguyen Binh Khiem St, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam - Phone: 08 829 8146

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    Buddism, Lemmy and Uninformative Lables

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    Howdy,

    So far it has been Jamie doing all the blog work, however tonight you have me (and I have been drinking so sorry about any odd spelling and the like).

    Well today started reallitively early, breakfast at the hostel (long roll with jam, Vietnamese coffee and bannas), before setting out at about 730 over to the Jade Emperor …

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    Kicking off the Vietnam Tour

    Nothing, not even the Top Gear special, can prepare you for the experience of travelling in the utter chaos that is the traffic in Vietnam. You basically have to ignore the motorbikes and walk like an ignorant student jaywalker in order to cross the road. The bikes just swarm around you and will toot if they want you to stop. Zebra and pedestrian …

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    Strolling in Saigon

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    ... to sit down for a few minutes. A long walk down a street with 5 star hotels on one side and the American Consulate and History museum on the other (the history museum has lots of tanks and war vehicles outside including one of the tanks that broke into ...

  • 2

    The Reunification Express to Saigon

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    ... station to get our heads together. What a rude hour to arrive in a new city!  Saigon Xin Chào from Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City! We’d bundled off Reunification Express at 4am and sat in the station waiting to come round. 5am, after a few ...

  • 3

    Southern Vietnam

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    ... ; Ended up taking many rolls of pictures.  The four I went to were The War Remnants Museum, The Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, The History Museum and The Fine Arts Museum.  The buildings alone are worth the price of admission.  One thing ...

  • 4

    15 Vietnamese boys and 1 hairy American

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    ... like an oasis from the steamy and crowded streets of HCMC. Our other tourist adventures included the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City Museum, History Museum, Cholon (Chinatown), Dong Khoi shopping, and getting massages from a blind masseuse. Our ...

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    Tourist Paradise

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    ... the end of World War II, Ho Chi Minh received financial assistance from the US to be used against the invading Japanese. Ho Chi Minh means "Bringer of Light". The Tet Offensive was the turning point of the Vietnam War. On the lunar new year, in ...

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    Hanging with Uncle Ho

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    ... sure why - we haven't been particularly busy. Just lazy I guess. So this one's for all the way back when we were in Ho Chi Minh city, also know as Saigon (even by the locals - I don't think they're doing back-flips about their "liberation" yet). The ...

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    A little bit of everything

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    ... next two days touring the museums of Saigon (every last one of them, I think).  Saigon has some dramatic war history museums that are defintely humbling to Americans.  We saw several Canadians with little Canadian flags sewed onto their bags, ...

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    The rest of Saigon

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    ... , we felt good about spending lots of time and money here! Saigon is still used as the name of the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, which itself covers a massive area. We have found Saigon much more modern and hectic than Hanoi, where we started our journey ...

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    Entering Saigon and Beyond

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    ... as it had more modern furnishings, a bunker, helicopter landing pad etc.) as well as the fascinating War Remnants Museum and the History Museum. We checked out briefly the botanical gardens and zoo, and enjoy some of the night markets where we ...

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    Full Cyclo

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    ... sitting at a sidewalk bar enjoying a Saigon beer and a donut. I felt as though we were just scratching the surface of Ho Chi Minh City and although we hadn’t had the energy to fully explore the nightlife we decided to conserve our energy for our ...