Sights in Dien Bien Phu
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Dien Bien Phu Museum
The site of the 1954 battle is now marked by several monuments, including the Dien Bien Phu Museum, which contains a startlingly eclectic collection of exhibits. Alongside the usual weaponry and guns there’s a bathtub that belonged to Colonel de Castries, a bicycle capable of carrying 330kg of ordnance, and plenty of photographs and documents, some with English translations.
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A1 Hill
There are tanks and a monument to Viet Minh casualties on the site of the former French position, known to the French as Eliane and to the Vietnamese as A1 Hill, where bitter fighting took place. The elaborate trenches at the heart of the French defences have also been re-created.
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Bunker Headquarters of Colonel Christian de Castries
Across the river the bunker headquarters of the French commander, Colonel Christian de Castries, has been re-created, and there are old French tanks and artillery pieces close by.
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