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Published On: Oct 30, 2006 02:28 PM
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Published On: Oct 30, 2006 02:28 PM
Fun Being Tourists!
One of the things we really wanted to do in
living here in Vietnam was to see a lot of the country and the region. It's fun
playing tourist!
Here are some pics from around town in Saigon.
This is the former Hotel de Ville, a real symbol of the French colonial era. This building is now used as the headquarters of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. In front of the building you can see a park with a statue of Uncle Ho himself holding a child.
If you imagine you are standing looking at the statue and building in the picture above, then to your left there is the famous Rex Hotel. This hotel housed American servicemen and international journalists during the "American War". The rooftop bar was famous as the place where journalists, fortified with a stiff drink, wrote their dispatches - the "5 o'clock follies".
This is Russell in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, or Nha Tho Duc Ba. It's Saigon's biggest church. The statue of the Virgin Mary is looking down Dong Khoi street, where we stayed whilst we were in HCMC.
To the right as you look at the front of the cathedral, is the beautiful Buu Dien (Post Office). One thing we do notice in VN is that, despite having a strange mix of gorgeous French colonial style buildings, Russian box monstrosities, and garish Vina-style, they certainly do take great care of the classic old buildings.
Diamond Plaza is an enormous complex housing a large department store, shops, cinema, swimming pool, offices, KFC - you name it, Diamond Plaza has it! We hadn't been in a department store in so long, it was quite an odd feeling! So clean, so bright, so many things in one place! Brand name merchandise that is real!
Here are some pics from around town in Saigon.
This is the former Hotel de Ville, a real symbol of the French colonial era. This building is now used as the headquarters of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. In front of the building you can see a park with a statue of Uncle Ho himself holding a child.
If you imagine you are standing looking at the statue and building in the picture above, then to your left there is the famous Rex Hotel. This hotel housed American servicemen and international journalists during the "American War". The rooftop bar was famous as the place where journalists, fortified with a stiff drink, wrote their dispatches - the "5 o'clock follies".
This is Russell in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, or Nha Tho Duc Ba. It's Saigon's biggest church. The statue of the Virgin Mary is looking down Dong Khoi street, where we stayed whilst we were in HCMC.
To the right as you look at the front of the cathedral, is the beautiful Buu Dien (Post Office). One thing we do notice in VN is that, despite having a strange mix of gorgeous French colonial style buildings, Russian box monstrosities, and garish Vina-style, they certainly do take great care of the classic old buildings.
Diamond Plaza is an enormous complex housing a large department store, shops, cinema, swimming pool, offices, KFC - you name it, Diamond Plaza has it! We hadn't been in a department store in so long, it was quite an odd feeling! So clean, so bright, so many things in one place! Brand name merchandise that is real!
Posted: Sun - October 9, 2005 at 06:09 PM