The Vietnam History Museum has just been refurbished recently. I returned to create virtual tours and this post is on the pictures I took and some explanation on the exhibits…

This is part 2 of a 2 parts series on the Ho Chi Minh City Museum. Part 1 focuses on its beautiful building…

Visit the Ho Chi Minh City Museum for a few reasons: a) its beautiful French building, b) see how Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon, is like in the pass and c) the Ho Chi Minh City Museum is conveniently located within the city centre…

Thought for quite some time about what I should write for the 1st post of 2010 and then came out with this idea of sharing about Vietnam720 and the ‘boy’ behind it…

The War Remnants Museum Saigon, in my book, takes the number 1 spot in Saigon tourist attractions. If anything else, war images and in this case Vietnam War pictures, are not something you’ll come across everyday. When you talk about Vietnam, the first few words that roll out of your tongue have to be conical hats, Halong Bay and the Vietnam War. And the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon, will be the best place to see the Vietnam War pictures, albeit via explicit images…

Hal: When I hear the word, “village,” I generally think of a small community of houses built in a rural locale, surrounded by farms and all the trappings of a pastoral life. And when I hear the phrase, “silk-weaving village,” I imagine a tiny hamlet wherein old women tend to small wooden looms, following local traditions handed down for generations. So these were the images I had in mind when a friend suggested we visit Van Phuc, a local Vietnamese silk-weaving “village,” and center of Vietnamese sericulture for nearly two thousand years…

The Saigon Reunification Palace, a Vietnam attraction in Ho Chi Minh City, is a place to see great Saigon architecture. The Saigon Reunification Palace is also where you’ll learn quite a bit about south Vietnam before Vietnam becomes one…

This is a very brief breakdown of Vietnam history…