Ho Chi Minh City

Day in City before moving onto Dalat tomorrow. Very hot. Saigon must be one of the most chaotic city`s I`ve visited. In China it was bicycles coming at you from every angle. Here it`s motorbikes. There are apparently 3 million in the city alone and they all seam to be heading directly for you when you cross the road. Visited a few museums and relaxed in the Botanical Gardens this afternoon. The war remnants museum, which has some horrific pictures of some of the things the Americans did while they were here. Some lovely deformed foetus pickled in jars which were the result of Agent Orange. Also some horrendous pictures of the massacres which took place in some villages, where Women children and even babies were brutally shot down by gung ho GI`s.The museum also contains an old Guillotine, a remembrance of the French rule!
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