香港六合彩即时开奖

22 Ly Tu Trong

Ho Chi Minh City


The ground floor of this innocuous-looking building on Ly Tu Trong is currently occupied by the Vietnam National Chemical Group. Step across the road to outside the Vincom Center to look up at the roof and you will see a structure (housing the lift shaft) that served as a temporary landing pad for a US helicopter evacuating personnel the day before the fall of Saigon, an image immortalised by Dutch photographer Hubert Van Es.

The photograph is commonly misunderstood to depict US citizens leaving the roof of the US embassy, but this building did house CIA staff.


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香港六合彩即时开奖's must-see attractions

Nearby Ho Chi Minh City attractions

1. People鈥檚 Committee Building

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One of the city鈥檚 most prominent landmarks is home to the Ho Chi Minh City People鈥檚 Committee. Built between 1901 and 1908, the former H么tel de Ville鈥

2. Central Post Office

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The city's landmark French-era post office is a period classic, designed by Marie-Alfred Foulhoux (though often credited to Gustave Eiffel) and built鈥

3. Opera House

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Gracing the intersection of 脨 Dong Khoi and 脨L Le Loi, this grand colonial edifice with a sweeping staircase was built in 1897 and is one of the city's鈥

4. Notre Dame Cathedral

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Built between 1877 and 1883, Notre Dame Cathedral enlivens the heart of Ho Chi Minh City's government quarter, facing 脨 Dong Khoi. A red-brick, neo鈥

5. HCMC Museum

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A grand neoclassical structure built in 1885 and once known as Gia Long Palace (and later the Revolutionary Museum), HCMC鈥檚 city museum is a singularly鈥

6. Saigon Central Mosque

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Built by South Indian Muslims in 1935 on the site of an earlier mosque, lime-green Saigon Central Mosque is an immaculately clean and well-tended island鈥

7. Norodom Palace Gatehouse

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The only surviving structure from the original Norodom Palace (which was bombed in 1962 and replaced with today's Reunification Palace) is this impressive鈥

8. Ton Duc Thang Museum

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This small patriotic museum is dedicated to Ton Duc Thang, Ho Chi Minh鈥檚 successor as president of Vietnam. Born in 1888 in Long Xuyen in the Mekong Delta鈥