Ho Chi Minh City

Reunification Palace	View from the balcony	Reception room	The tanks that crashed the gates on April 30, 1975
Plane that dropped bombs on the palace in 1975	President's helicopter	General post office	French architecture, Ho Chi Minh's picture
War Remnants Museum	Old U.S. equipment	Left behind when the U.S. fled	Lots of bombs left in Vietnam
Kim Phuc The Girl in the Picture	French guillotine last used in 1960	7 tonne bomb	Notre Dame Cathedral
Thien Hau Pagoda (early 1800s)	Ceramic friezes	Cheeky devils	Two wee chaps
Spirals of incense hung from the ceiling	Takes one week to burn	Prayer strips	To send gifts to ancestors by burning paper copies
Big Buddha	A monk's stupa	Ashes held in urns with offerings	Maintained by the families
Giac Lam Pagoda - the inner temple	Scary	Gilt statues	Funerary blocks
Another pagoda	Yet another pagoda	Busy streets