Comments on: SE Asia Trip Dispatch: Part Three (Saigon Part Duex) http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/10/10/se-asia-trip-dispatch-part-three-saigon-part-duex/ The Expeditioner is a travel magazine for the avid traveler. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:08:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nancy Lewis http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/10/10/se-asia-trip-dispatch-part-three-saigon-part-duex/#comment-3205 Nancy Lewis Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:55:40 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=8851#comment-3205 That's a pretty awesome-looking memorial to Thich Quang Duc. I had never heard about that until I visited the War Remnants Museum last year. You have to believe in something pretty intensely to be able to set yourself on fire. I can't even fathom it.

From taking various tours mostly round Hoi An, I learned that there was a lot of US miliarty machinery left in Vietnam, & it's not going to waste. 1960s US military Jeeps are now used to transport tourists to see the Cham ruins at My Son. Ironic, no?

]]> By: Jude Polotan http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/10/10/se-asia-trip-dispatch-part-three-saigon-part-duex/#comment-3182 Jude Polotan Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:57:33 +0000 http://www.theexpeditioner.com/?p=8851#comment-3182 How hysterical that you were doing your own rickshaw tours…what a great memory!

Saigon seems so fascinating, cloaked as it is in its turbulent history.

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