American War museums
From my understanding there are war museums in both Hanoi and HCMC. If we were to only visit one, which would folks recommend? Realistically we would like to choose one or the other due to both time constraints and interests. Planning to spend more time in Hanoi but will at least be passing thru HCMC for a day.1
I only visited the one in HCMC, after doing the cuuchi tunnels trip at 8am till around 11am, they dropped us off there if we wanted to go.Very sad and interesting at the same time and well worth the visit.huey at HCMC
next am off on open tour bus to Dalat
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For me its the war remnants museum in HCMC. Very interesting, many artifacts en photos. Even if slightly one sided3
Yeah, agree with the Dog that eats chips. The War Remnants Museum in Saigon is very good....worth the trip just to see the incredible collection of War Time B & W photo's for sure.Quite one sided in it's presentation, but you can look beyond that. The shots of people suffering from the Poisons & Toxins used in the Chemical Warfare Approach are a bit tough to stomach in places.
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It should be explained to the OP that the war museum in Hanoi, which is actually called the military museum, has artifacts from wars far predating the 20th century and some may find such treasures and rare and ancient weapons even more interesting than the ubiquitous guns and equipment leftover from the 70s. But mostly the displays and exhibits are on the more recent wars. That being said, if it was to be only one museum then I'd go to the one in Saigon.8
The War remnants museum in HCMC is excellent.#6
Yes, that is a great outdoor cafe. I spent about an hour there some time ago just watching the world go by.
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