
Visitng the war museum in Saigon, we saw many relics leftover from the Vietnamese-American war. This was one of the mounted guns on a helicopter.

Just before entering the museum, one of the large fighter planes that were outside. There were many different machines from the war such as tanks, helicopters, and different styles of airplanes on display.

We went to visit an old Chinese style temple that was full of burning incense. They had many of these pots all over filled with incense sticks, as well as very large coiled incense hanging from the ceiling.

Inside the reunification palace, this used to be a palace for the President before the war. The palace was very large, with 5 floors, and everything from a massive kitchen, guest rooms, and a disco and helicopter landing pad on the roof. This statue is of Ho Chi Minh, and was located in the main conference hall.

This was the President's main office, it was very large with a nice view of the courtyard outside. (We weren't allowed to go near the desk but Polly got special froggy privileges). There also a secret hidden door that led to the bomb shelter in the basement.

This is the yellow meeting room, one of the many meeting rooms on the 2nd floor. There was more then 10 different rooms all used for meetings, and all of them were different colours, and used for different types of meetings.
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August 15th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
This is very informative, and the pictures are great!
August 16th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Me again. Fried crickets sound delicious, but I’m thinking that the cockroaches are an acquired taste. There’s just something about the way they run when the lights are turned on that give me the heebie jeebies!
August 17th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Wow! Polly got to sit at the president’s desk! I have to admit that she’s very photogenic and hard to resist. I’ve never been to Asia, and your articles really bring it much closer to home.
August 29th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
The incense sticks picture is really nice-I love the colors! I remember going into some incense rooms when I was in China and I thought it was a very interesting thing to see, but sometimes the smell was overwhelming. Instead of sticks, we saw giant incense coils that hung from the ceiling. Fantastic post!
December 9th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
I liked the war museum and I thought the war gun mounted in the helicopter was interesting.