Indochina 2009

Photos by Adam Jones

These photos were taken during two months in Indochina
(Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) from May to July 2009.

Photo Gallery 57: Vietnam - Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)

This gallery: continuing with photos from the War Remants museum; more Saigon street and
people shots.

I.

Guillotine used by the French to execute convicted Viet Minh rebels during their counterinsurgency
war of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

II.

Two of the infamous "tiger cages" used by the Thieu regime in South Vietnam to keep Viet
Cong suspects and other dissidents in torturously cramped conditions.

III.

Diorama of one of the Thieu regime's jail cells.

IV.

The Reunification Palace in Saigon, formerly the presidential palace, where North Vietnamese
tanks crashed in on April 30, 1975 to terminate the US-supported regime and end the Vietnam wars.

V.

View over downtown Saigon from the Reunification Palace.

VI.

This photo and the next: inside the Reunification Palace.

VII.

VIII.

Remainder of the gallery: more street scenes and people shots from funky Saigon.

IX.

Women at work in a textile factory.

X.

Back ...

XI.

... to front.

XII.

XIII.

This photo and the next: at the Jade Emperor Pagoda.

XIV.

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