Friday, April 4, 2014

Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)



Throughout Vietnam you'll see T-shirts for sale with a tangle-of-wires scene, and this written underneath: VIETNAM TELECOM





Ho Chi Minh, or "Uncle Ho," is considered to be Vietnam's great liberator. A famous line of his during the war with the French was: "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds you will lose and I will win." Every major town in Vietnam has a Ho Chi Minh Museum. His body, which is on view in Hanoi at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, is sent to Russia once a year for maintenance.




Sometimes at Vietnam cafes a green tea chaser is served with your coffee.



This is the Pham Ngu Lao district in Saigon, an area popular with backpackers.

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