We flew from Danang to Saigon in the morning and followed up with a city tour – the biggest impression was the War Remnants Museum, previous called the American War Atrocities Museum…Vietnam is a communist country and the media is strictly controlled so the museum did not offer anything but the Vietnamese view of what they call the American War. This is disingenuous to say the least but I guess it glosses over the fact that it was a civil war between the Communist North and the Capitalist South. The North was fighting both the South and their proxy the Americans. There’s no doubt that the Americans didn’t behave well but according to this museum the (North) Vietnamese didn’t do anything wrong. The Americans pulled out 2 years before the war officially ended and history is of course re written by the victors – just some food for thought.
Dinner at the Lantern Restaurant was actually a disappointment for quite a few of us and service was so slow they ended up taking lots of dishes off the bill. A small low in an otherwise flawless foodie experience.
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