A Visit to Vietnam Part 6

Monday, November 15, 2010 We left the Victoria Can Tho Hotel at 8 a.m. by bus for a one-hour ride to the upper reaches of the Mekong River. At 9 a.m. we boarded another sampan for a long river ride with several stops. ... The architect was Ngo Viet Thu, who had trained in Paris. In 1975 the building fell to Communist forces. The conference rooms contains a mural depicting the kings of Vietnam and a bust of Ho Chi Minh. We saw a map of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. ...