We started off the day sleeping off our jet lag after having breakfast at the hotel. We both avoided the pho for breakfast. Spicy noodle soup is not the way I want to start my day. Then once we were ready we walked to a park in Saigon which was so well kept and had sculptures and shaped hedges everywhere which were all very impressive. There were vietnamese people acting out fight scenes and another group doing some sort of dance routine.
Then we visited the war museum, solely focused on the vietnam war. We walked there from our hotel through the stickiness and heat of the city. The outside of the museum boasted large hammer and sickle flags and an array of tanks, helicopters, planes and artillery (all american). There was an outside section focused on the American prisoner of war camps with tiny barbed wire cages used as cells and awful accounts of torture including the use of nails.
Inside there was a large and shocking display of the results of agent orange with children still being born mutated today. Also there were lots of pictures showing the differences between places that were damaged from the war, it was very interesting. It was quite embarrassing walking round because we didn't want people to think we are American.
H and L
Sounds like an interesting day.
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