Ho Chi Minh City Things to Do Tips by stevemt

This musem, is certainly worth a visit. It is sobering to view the photo's, the exhibits, and read the narratives.

However, I personally found it a little hard to take the very onesided view that is portrayed here, especially considering that apparently 95% of the material came from the US archives. The musem itself is housed in the old US Intelligence building.

One exhibit caught my eye, A guillitine used last in 1920 I believe.

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This is a worthwile trip to take. Its about 6 hours all up and very scenic.

You start with a long car journey to the delta and en route you see local life Vietnamese style.

At the delta you transfer to a boat and go past a fish farm, and then call into a tourist island to see coconut toffee being made (and sold), souvineer stalls, morning tea where you sample rice wine, local fruits etc, and get a sample hearing of local music played on traditional instruments and song. - very interesting for me as a part time musician.

Back to the boat and off to another island for lunch where they make springs rolls in front of you. Lunch was great.

Then back to the boat via a trip in the back waters on a sam pan (if they locally call it that?) that is scenic and interesting as you see historic type traditional dutch dwellings and current dwellings of the locals.

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