Set out today to see the past of Saigon and its recent communist incarnation – Ho Chi Minh City. We had a guided tour of independence/reunification palace. This was first built by the French as their base in indo china and taken over by Vietnamese during their independence, then to be taken over after the Vietnamese/American war by the communists. Lots of cool things in the building - tanks, a helicopter and an airplane, and the guide was very helpful. We then went to the war museum after that, which was very sad and very emotive.
After all the walking of the day we headed off for a KFC which was absolutely lovely – first proper western fast food since Malaysia. Ordered the whole menu!
Whilst heading out that night to the food festival to work our way around the missed stalls from the previous night we ran into a couple from Cork who we had met in Laos and whom we had then bumped into here and there throughout Vietnam. Needless to say the food festival was cancelled again and we sat down in the small chairs on the street and indulged in many 16p beers. We ran them out of beer in the first place and had to move on, ended up in a small Irish bar til very late that night.
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