Hooooo Chi Minh (aka Saigon)
If you don't understand the title to this post you really need to see "Good Morning Vietnam", a Robin Williams classic. Dan and I began our visit with the War Remnants Museum which was by far the best museum we've seen. It's extremely one sided and used to be known as the American War Crimes Museum. They have an amazing collections from photographers who dedicated their lives to documenting the war; tanks, bombs, and airplanes in the yard; exhibits on the aftermath of dioxin (Agent Orange); and replicas of the prisons. This was followed up with a trip out to the Cu Chi tunnels which was an extensive network for the guerrillas during the war. The tunnels themselves turned out to be pretty tiny we found out as we crawled through them for 100 meters. It's amazing to believe that they have been enlarged by 10 cm both in height and width to allow for tourists to go through - we would never fit in the originals! HCMC also has some cool bars and on Dan's last night we went to check out one belonging to his friend Beth's uncle, and hung out with him and a bunch of ex-pats for the night. I was invited out for a Hash House Harrier run with them the next afteroon. It was a wonderful way to cheer me up after taking Dan to the airport. The run turned out to be a 10 km adventure through mud, rivers, rice fields, cow pastures....Nonetheless, I was filthy afterwards but it was a great way to justify my trip out to the beach of Mui Ne for a few days. Mui Ne was a nice quiet beach with a lot of kitesurfing to watch. They also had some really cool sand dunes to see, but all in all a very chill place. The photos are the tanks outside the War Remnants museum, the fishing village at Mui Ne, and the white sand dunes.
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