Ho Chi Min Slapstick Weekend-Trip (Day 2)
Last English artile, I wrote about the first half of my Ho Chi Min trip. In this article I'm going to tell you about the second half.
If you didn't see my last one you can go from bellow link.
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A Japanese Guest House "USAGIYAH" at Ho Chi Min
I stayed the night at USAGIYAH, a guest house run by Japanese owner.
I wanted to get sightseeing informations from Japanese tourists staying there. Really there are many Japaneses and no Non-Japanese. AND no English in they web-site.
I don't like there Japanese atomsphere, but I like the bed of dormitory stile room. It was clean and enough large to take selfy.
Place The Vietman War Ended
Ho Chi Min city was begun with the new country of unified vietnam, called Socialist Republic of Vietnam. This city was the capital of South Vietnam (officaily is Republic of Vietnam) and called Saigon till the end of Vietnam war. After ending of war, the name was changed to Ho Chi Min, come from a former reader of Nothe Vietnam.
The Vietnam war was ended on April 4, 1976. After US evacuate oparetion, the tanks and troops of the North stormed into the prime minisrer's office at Saigon.
You can see the conditon of the city and the prime minister's office on the day, in this vedio.
The office will be shown from 1:20 in this.
I went the office. Now it renamed Reunification Palace and opend to tourists as museum. We can see inside of once-presidental office and once-comannder office.
Upper building is for prime minister, so seems luxurious. There are cabinet's conforence room, rooms for prime misiter's family, offices etc.
While, under ground building is for war. There are facilities just for war.
Pictuer is a bed for the prime minister under war situation. This bed room is directry connected to the corridor without a door.
A Museum of Vietnam War
There is a museum of Vietnam war caled War Remnants Museum.
We can learn many thing about Vietinam war, backgrounds, weapons, dameges of defoliant (a chemical to kill the tree and crop, used in this war, caused serious damege to babies) and antiwar movement spread over the world.
Tanks, cannons, helicopters are displaied outside.
There are not only modern weapons like missiles and small land mines, but panels to show the changing of war.
There are also a room for journalists joined this war.
I was impressed by this picture and journalist "Taizo Ichinose". He tried to go Angkor wat, cambodia, amid the civil war and lost his life in there.
The Vietnamese Street Food "Banh mi"
I chose a Vietnamese sandwich called "Bahm mi" as my last meal of my trip.
It has meat, fried egg, some lettuce and soft french bread. I realy wanted to eat Bahm mi of "Hyunh Hoa Sandwich", one of the famous Bahn mi shop, but it opens from 2 pm. My bus also departure at 2 pm so I couldn't try it
Here is the shop location. I will definitely go there next time.
The Purpose of My Visit
This trip was not just a weekend trip. The main purpose was to get a new visa of Canbodia. Last time I got a E-visa (Aliens can choose E-visa(I don't know what E stand for) or Tourist-visa in normal), but sometime we have choose EI-visa, not listed in officail documents. I need EI to extend my visa for 6 months.
We don't need fill up any document without immigration card. Just bring the card and 35 USD (or 30 USD for Tourist-visa) to the visa office, we can buy new visa.
