So then, a full year since the last money went into our bank account, but we think we’ve had pretty good value for that money. Today we set about the main sights of Saigon and took in the Reunification Palace, the War Remnants Museum and the Ho Chi Minh City museum. The palace was better than we’d expected and was where the Communist tanks headed when they captured Saigon in 1975. It’s no Versailles though and makes us think of a 1960s hotel (with some influence from the Soviets) that used to be plush, has now clearly declined, but whose owners cannot see this. The War Remnants Museum is the highlight of Vietnam as far as sightseeing goes and is brilliant. Some of the photos are quite harrowing, and it is a very well managed
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