Tuesday March 9th
Walked following guidebook walking tour, including wonderful old French colonial fine arts museum, then stopping at recommended ice cream parlour ( X cafe - thanks for the ice cream money Em!).
Continued to Reunification Palace, a triumph of 1960s modernist architecture with both the scale and elegance to produce a building admirably fit for purpose. We were guided round by a charming Vietnamese patriot who spoke good English and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Walked by the cathedral to the old French colonial post office. As impressive as a railway terminus and similar in design and size. Then back to a French deli we had passed for cake - essential fuel for tourism second only to beer.
We have booked a three day trip through the Mekong delta to Phnom Penh in Cambodia and decided to finish the walking tour tomorrow.
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A Kitler is a cat that looks like Hitler (white face, black splodge over one eye and a little black splodge on the upper lip) you must have seen the website devoted to them, it's got a great name www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're right, it's an invasion!
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous, you're going off to places I haven't been now. I want to come :-(
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Em, you were right about the Saigon statue, it is to the first person to use carrier pigeons in Vietnam!
ReplyDeleteP.S. If first impressions are anything to go by, you must visit Cambodia.