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Reunification Palace, Uncle Ho  
   

Reunification Palace, Uncle Ho

When the VC took Saigon in 1975 they headed straight for this Palace and broke through the gates with 2 tanks. This was the offices and war room of the "capitalist american puppet president" (not my words :) )
Mui Ne to Saigon

November 16th 2007
So its blog time again! We've pretty much done everything we wanted to do touristwise in Saigon, so think its a safe time to wrap it up in a blog before we get on the road to Phnom Penh. We'll see what we can pull together here! We wrapped up in Mui ne, after having 3 surfs in total, waves dỉed down, wind dropped, so it was no more surf for the lads 😞 . It rained quite a lot one of the ... read more
Asia » Vietnam

Vietnamese Flag The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more
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