Today several of us had the opportunity to attend a church service
in the Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral. The individuals who did not go to
church went to the War Remnants Museum. The museum had a lot of artifacts
from the war. In front of the museum are several huge planes and
tanks. You don't realize how big they are until you're standing next to
them. The inside is filled with information about the war including
various guns and Agent Orange.
After church and the museum we stopped at the Saigon Central Post
Office. It took approximately five years (1886- 1891) for the large
sunshine yellow building to be completed. Inside the post office were
individual booths people used to make phone calls. Interestingly you can
still call people around the world! Thank goodness we have cell phones!
After the post office we went for another wonderful meal.
This time we ate at the Co Ngu Restaurant. We enjoyed spring rolls, beef
with green pepper sauce, bread, fried chicken with lemon grass and chili, mixed
vegetables, fried fish fillets with tomato sauce, steamed rice and fresh
fruits. Everyone is getting really good with their chopsticks!
Next we visited the Reunification Palace, formerly known as the
Independence Palace. This isn't actually the original palace; the first
one was built by the French in 1868 for the governor of Indochina. In the
1960s, when Vietnam existed as two countries, this served as the home of the
South Vietnam president. The palace has lots of rooms open for the public
to see. Everything is still decorated like it was in the 60s. One
room had pea green carpet! Can you believe they even had a cinema
room?! We didn't get a chance to see the upstairs party room or the
helicopter landing pad, but everything we did see was very ornately decorated.
Tonight is our last night in the country. We hope to venture
to the market one more time to pick up any last minute souvenirs and get a
few hours of shut eye before our 3 am flight home.
Kaleigh Kerns and David Cook
UPDATE: Since this blog post was written, our flight from Ho Chi
Minh City to Hong Kong was cancelled. We are working on rescheduling our
flights and will get back to you with more information shortly. Everyone
is fine; although we're anxious to get home, we're still in very good spirits.
Ho Chi Minh city tourist attractions as the biggest tourism centre of Vietnam located 1,730 km south of Hanoi. The city is full of things to do and new experiences for any new comer. Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is where traveler opt for a longer stay, there are chaos, hustling-bustling, great nigh-life and more than that an amazing metropolis.
ReplyDeleteYou are having a Myanmar 5 days tour, where do you want to go first. The first must-go place is Inle Lake, the most romantic atmosphere in Burma at the end of the day, that would be a wise choice to come here and contemplate the sunset. The second place you should go is also in Yangon, this is Shwedagon Paya, the largest golden pagoda in Myanmar. If your trip is in March or early April, you can have a chance to be a part of the largest Buddha festival, which is held at Shwedagon. Another place you should not miss is Mandalay. Don’t forget to stop by the royal palace in the city to learn more about the lifestyle of the royal in Burma in the last decades.
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