Today we drove several hours to visit the Reunification Palace site of the fall of Saigon in 1975 when an army tank drove through the gates to end the AMERICAN WAR as they call it here. The famous rooftop helicopter rescue took place here.
We also visited the Post Office built by Gustav Eiffel which is a beautiful design and also contained the phone booths used in the day of the French occupation
Our lunch was in the former Opium Den used by the British. It was a fabulous lunch again. Not hungry for dinner.
Traffic in Saigon is even worse than yesterday’s.
Our daily guide’s family almost all escaped as boat people and are living in the USA. He also escaped but his boat was captured off Taiwan and he was returned to a re education camp for 6 years before being set free. He and his wife consulted a fortune teller before getting married. She told them that according to their zodiac signs they should not marry because one of them would die early. Being catholic, they laughed it off and married anyhow. She died.
Time to rehydrate like crazy.
De belles rencontres avec la population de chaque pays, leurs coutumes, et leur vécu, vraiment magnifique!Ici temps printanier avec plus de 15 degrés l’après midi!La végétation reprend vie!French kisses
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