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Hanging in Ho Chi Minh City
We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon as it was previously called) last night. There is over 7 million people in this city and I am fairly sure I saw every single person and dodged them in the traffic. The city was somewhat disappointing in a way. There really isn’t too much to see or do. The sights are limited and the area is huge. We just walked around the downtown area and soaked in the chaos of the big city life.
We did mission out to visit the War Remnants Museum which was insightful and painful. It was once called the Chinese & American War Crime Museum – for a reason. Outside were some of the actual tanks, planes and helicopters but the exhibitions inside were the most powerful. There was several photographic collections showing the very graphic destruction to the land and people by the illegal use of Agent Orange by the Americans. There were aerial photographs of the land depicting the before and after of vital forests and mangrove biospheres. Still now, there are watersheds polluted by this toxin. The images of the deformed next generation were beyond comprehension.
Refuge was found on the Rex Hotel rooftop bar with a few Long Island Iceteas and Strawberry Margarettas. Oh yeah…I went for another spa massage while Elias went in search of a hamburger. Now we plan our Cambodia adventure….
