January 28, 2015.  This morning, we had a one hour flight from DaNang to Saigon on Vietnam Airlines.  It was a nice airline, but when we landed that plane swayed from side to side,  I've never had that happen before.  It was like "lean to the left, lean to the right" and then we went straight.  I was on the aisle and when I swayed to my right, I was halfway out in the aisle.  Weird feeling.

The Saigon airport is a large one and pretty much right in the midst of the city.  Nine million people live here.  The traffic is so bad it took more than an hour to get to the hotel.  We toured the reunification palace where the president used to live and work.  Part of the tour was through the bunker where he could go in an emergency.  Old radio and office equipment from the 60's.   All supplied by the U.S.  Not a very impressive place,

After that, we went to the "War Remnants Museum " that used to be called the War Crimes Museum. The courtyard was filled with US military aircraft and equipment.  I didn't realize how large the Chinook helicopter is.  They even have a bulldozer of ours.  Anyway, it was really really hard to look at the pictures on display.  Our guide had warned us about the pictures of children with deformities due to agent orange but it was worse than I thiught it would be.  And there were lots of pictures of our military personnel too.  And that was really hard to see, too.  Many were familiar from the news media when the war was going on.  The picture of the young naked girl was there.  All in all, a hard place to see.

We had dinner on a boat tonight cruising on the river here, which was very nice.  Saigon is a port so large container ships were being loaded, as well as barges.  We're 30 miles inland so it's a freshwater river.  Very large, probably as big as the Columbia.

Oh, I saw the Harley Davidson "dealership" from the bus.  A canopy with one motorcycle (not a big one either) with a plastic chair, in front of a car dealer.   Not too impressive, to say the least.☺️