Cambodia - Vietnam Trip Day 9 (23/06/06)
morning arrives...the first thing to do is to have our breakfast...so me, Kah Sing, Jin, Andrew and Nigel walked around the streets to find something to eat...we decided to have noodle mee..
beef noodle soup for RM2 coming right up !!!
after breakfast we did a tour around Saigon City...we followed a 7km route suggested in the Looney Planet guidebook...basically the walk will bring us to all the intersting places in the city area...so our walk begins...1st stop would be the central market...hehe...there is a lot of stuffs inside...baju shops, souvenier shops, cafeteria, etc...
2nd stop is the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum...
This museum was established in September 1987. This building was built in the Asian Europe style by French architecs in the early of the 20th century. On the first and second floors, there are exhibits of works by Vietnamese and foreign artists. On the third floor are rooms with displays of works from between the 7th and early 20th century, including Champa and Oc Eo art work, Vietnamese antiques (ceramics, red-lacquered and gilded products, mother-of-pearl inlaid wood, etc.), traditional handicrafts of the Vietnamese ethnic groups and Western art....Bty the entrance fee is USD2...
next stop would be like the "pasar pagi" of the city...hehe
hm i found an interesting potrait during our walk...
next stop...a theatre
one of the pillars...i will do that to my home one day...LOL
inside the theatre...apparently there are people doing rehearsel...stop there for a while to watch them... :)
Hi Chi Minh...Independence Father of Vietnam...
after the theatre we continue our walk...you see we passed by this French building and we dont know what the heck is it...it has this weird signboard next to it... :P
damm..it is lunch time...so lunch here we come....so we walked around and once again we have noodle soup...coz it is the cheapest u see... :P
the beef noodle is great...i forgot it costs how much but i am sure it is less than USD1..the drink i am having is grean bean drink..once cup for RM0.50..w00t
after lunch we went to the War Museum...there bascially we can see all the shits happened from the war with French -> US..the entrance fee is USD1...
The museum is located in a 2 HA square area. Built in 1885, the building was designed by the frech architec Foulhoux. At first the building was built for a commercial museum. when was completed, it became the cochinchina governor's place. after the august revolution ( 25/8/1945 ), it was as the provisional administrative committee HQ. Since 23/9/1945 it was used for the French High Commissioners's Residence office. Then it became the Southern Cogernor Palace, the Gia long Palace of Ngo Dinh Diem. During the Nguyen Van Thieu regime, it was the supreme court. On 12/8/1978, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City launched decision to use the bulding as Revolution Museum. Now the Ho Chi Minh City Museum with over 1200 display space, exhibition themes such as nature, archaeeology, etchic groups, etc...
next stop...the Reunification Palace...entrance fee USD1
The palace occupies the site of a colonial mansion erected in 1871 to house the governor-general of Indochina. With the French departure in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem commandeered this extravagant monument as his presidential palace, but after the February 1962 assassination attempt, the place had to be pulled down. The present building was labelled the Independence Palace in 1966, only to be re-titled the Reunification Hall when the South fell in 1975. Spookily unchanged from its working days, much of the building's interior is a veritable time-capsule of 1960s and 1970s kitsch: pacing its airy rooms, it's as if you've strayed into the arch-criminal's lair in a James Bond movie. Most interesting is the third floor with its presidential library, projection room and entertainment lounge complete. The basement served as the former command centre and displays archaic radio equipment and vast wall maps.
from the top floor...
last stop...a church....it is an old roman catholic church :)
after a long walk, we headed back to our guesthouse by foot as well...
beef noodle soup for RM2 coming right up !!!
after breakfast we did a tour around Saigon City...we followed a 7km route suggested in the Looney Planet guidebook...basically the walk will bring us to all the intersting places in the city area...so our walk begins...1st stop would be the central market...hehe...there is a lot of stuffs inside...baju shops, souvenier shops, cafeteria, etc...
2nd stop is the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum...
This museum was established in September 1987. This building was built in the Asian Europe style by French architecs in the early of the 20th century. On the first and second floors, there are exhibits of works by Vietnamese and foreign artists. On the third floor are rooms with displays of works from between the 7th and early 20th century, including Champa and Oc Eo art work, Vietnamese antiques (ceramics, red-lacquered and gilded products, mother-of-pearl inlaid wood, etc.), traditional handicrafts of the Vietnamese ethnic groups and Western art....Bty the entrance fee is USD2...
next stop would be like the "pasar pagi" of the city...hehe
hm i found an interesting potrait during our walk...
next stop...a theatre
one of the pillars...i will do that to my home one day...LOL
inside the theatre...apparently there are people doing rehearsel...stop there for a while to watch them... :)
Hi Chi Minh...Independence Father of Vietnam...
after the theatre we continue our walk...you see we passed by this French building and we dont know what the heck is it...it has this weird signboard next to it... :P
damm..it is lunch time...so lunch here we come....so we walked around and once again we have noodle soup...coz it is the cheapest u see... :P
the beef noodle is great...i forgot it costs how much but i am sure it is less than USD1..the drink i am having is grean bean drink..once cup for RM0.50..w00t
after lunch we went to the War Museum...there bascially we can see all the shits happened from the war with French -> US..the entrance fee is USD1...
The museum is located in a 2 HA square area. Built in 1885, the building was designed by the frech architec Foulhoux. At first the building was built for a commercial museum. when was completed, it became the cochinchina governor's place. after the august revolution ( 25/8/1945 ), it was as the provisional administrative committee HQ. Since 23/9/1945 it was used for the French High Commissioners's Residence office. Then it became the Southern Cogernor Palace, the Gia long Palace of Ngo Dinh Diem. During the Nguyen Van Thieu regime, it was the supreme court. On 12/8/1978, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City launched decision to use the bulding as Revolution Museum. Now the Ho Chi Minh City Museum with over 1200 display space, exhibition themes such as nature, archaeeology, etchic groups, etc...
next stop...the Reunification Palace...entrance fee USD1
The palace occupies the site of a colonial mansion erected in 1871 to house the governor-general of Indochina. With the French departure in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem commandeered this extravagant monument as his presidential palace, but after the February 1962 assassination attempt, the place had to be pulled down. The present building was labelled the Independence Palace in 1966, only to be re-titled the Reunification Hall when the South fell in 1975. Spookily unchanged from its working days, much of the building's interior is a veritable time-capsule of 1960s and 1970s kitsch: pacing its airy rooms, it's as if you've strayed into the arch-criminal's lair in a James Bond movie. Most interesting is the third floor with its presidential library, projection room and entertainment lounge complete. The basement served as the former command centre and displays archaic radio equipment and vast wall maps.
from the top floor...
last stop...a church....it is an old roman catholic church :)
after a long walk, we headed back to our guesthouse by foot as well...
