Page 15 - Vietnam Cambodia Thailand 20 Day Sample

This afternoon visit the Rex Rooftop Bar (located at the top of the Rex Hotel). The Rooftop Bar was made famous and popular by American troops during the Vietnam War when its conference room hosted a daily press conference, by the MACV, derisively named The Five O'clock Follies. The Rooftop Bar was a well-known hangout spot for military officials and war correspondents. Complete your Saigon exploring with a visit to the War Remnants Museum. The museum comprises a series of eight themed rooms in several buildings, with period military equipment located within a walled yard. The military equipment include a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter, an F-5A fighter, a BLU-82 “Daisy Cutter”bomb, M48 Patton bomb, and an A-1 attack bomber. One building reproduces the "tiger cages" in which the South Vietnamese government housed political prisoners. Other exhibits include graphic photographs, accompanied by short copy in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, covering the effects of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliant sprays, the use of napalm and phosphorus bombs, and atrocities such as the My Lai massacre. Curiosities include a guillotine used by the French and the South Vietnamese to execute prisoners, last in 1960, and three jars of preserved human fetuses deformed by exposure to dioxin. Overnight: InterContinental Asiana – Deluxe Room