Got off the boat in the morning to a huge city. Traffic is crazy, but maybe I am getting used to Asia and it didn’t seem so bad. The smog was much less than in Hanoi. We went to the old post office designed by Gustav Eiffel, saw the Norte Dame Cathedral and the CIA building where the last helicopter left Viet Nam. Then it was drinks at the rooftop bar at the Rex Hotel where the foreign correspondents held the “5 o’clockfollies”. The old colonial buildings are elegant and very well maintained. Stopped briefly at the Ben Trans Market = another place with lots of stiff, North Face knock offs seem to be a favorite. Our visit to the War Remnants Museum was grim. The victor gets to write history and it was very biased. I get it, was is hell - for BOTH sides.
We then went to a cooking class where we learned to make pho, ginger chicken, summer and spring rolls. I won an award for my summer rolls!
The afternoon was spent back in the market with “the girls”. Dinner was pizza at the hotel bar which has a wood fired oven and actually turned out a great pie!
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| Got to get me some of that coffee!!!!! |
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| Night lights in Saigon |
The old post office
Dean at cooking class
Night lights in Saigon
My Summer Rolls
Inside the post office
The gray building in the middle is the former CIA HQ
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