Motorbikes and face shields are ubiquitous in Vietnam
Street scenes - lunch time
The wiring looks a bit dodgy
Norodom Palace, palace, renamed Thong Nhat (Reunification) Hall after 1975, receives large numbers of foreign visitors. At the site of the bombing, there is a note written in both Vietnamese and English saying, “At 8:30 am on April 8, 1975, pilot Lieutenant Nguyen Thanh Trung flying an F5E plane bombed the palace at this site."
Tanks outside of the Norodom Palace
Inside Norodom Palace - Reunification Hall. Feng Shui is an important element.
Communications room in the tunnels under the Palace
Vietnam war communications and computers - huge, old, slow
Down into the hidden arms storage compartment
Inside the hidden arms cache in a small shop in Saigon
Photos and paintings of Ho Chi Minh are everywhere
Saigon Central Post Office was designed and constructed by the famous French architect Gustave Eiffel (of Eiffel tower and Statue of Liberty fame) construction of this great Gothic architectural styled building began in 1886 and was completed in 1891 - it looks like a wedding cake.
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