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Can Tho Museum
The enormous, well-presented Can Tho Museum has exhibits of the history of Can Tho resistance during foreign rule as well as displays on the culture and history of the province. There's a life-size pagoda and ample English signage.
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Can Tho Water Park
For a bit of glorious chlorinated fun, try the Can Tho Water Park. Among the attractions are water slides and a wave pool. Children under 1m tall are admitted free.
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Cantonese Congregation Pagoda
Occupying a splendid location facing the Can Tho River, this small Chinese pagoda, the Cantonese Congregation Pagoda, was built by the Cantonese Congregation. The original one was constructed on a different site about 70 years ago. The current pagoda was built with funds donated by overseas Chinese more recently. Can Tho used to have a large ethnic-Chinese population, but most of them fled after the anti-Chinese persecutions (1978-79).
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Central Market
Many local farmers and wholesalers arrive at the Central Market by boat to buy and sell. The fruit section, near the intersection of Ð Hai Ba Trung and Ð Ngo Quyen, is particularly colourful and stays open until late evening.
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Military Museum
Devoted to all things militaristic, the Military Museum has the usual assortment of American War weaponry and Ho Chi Minh portraits. Missiles and a fighter aircraft sit on the front lawn.
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Munirangsyaram Pagoda
The ornamentation of Munirangsyaram Pagoda is typical of Khmer Hinayana Buddhist pagodas: it doesn't have any of the multiple Bodhisattvas and Taoist spirits common in Vietnamese Mahayana pagodas. In the upstairs sanctuary, a 1.5m-high representation of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, sits serenely under a Bodhi Tree.
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