Reading and Roaming
Our last morning in Ho Chi Minh City was devoted to a tour of some notable sites. We visited the Presidential Palace and I admired the elegant state reception rooms in particular and noted in the war council and secure rooms that not only was there the one important “red phone” which was red, but also …
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What a fascinating 24 hours we’ve had! We left Saigon yesterday morning for the trip by car to the Mekong River, about 4 hours total. We were told that before a strikingly stunning new bridge across the river, you had to take a ferry. The ferry ride wasn’t particularly long, but the wait for the …
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Today we left our hotel early and flew from Hue to Saigon. The official name of the city is Ho Chi Minh City, the name since unification in 1975, but the airport code is SGN. We’ve discovered that in the north almost everyone calls it HCM City; the older generation is more apt to call …
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Today was very hot and humid and the sun was out–almost for the first time since we arrived in Vietnam! This morning we boarded one of the smaller colorful dragon boats that ply the Perfume River here in Hue. It was just us and our guide plus the pilot of the boat and a woman vendor …
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