Next we went to the Fine Art Museum and saw some interesting sculpture and painting, but was a little bit monotonous in places. The building itself was a lovely old colonial sprawl, if a little worn round the edges, with a lovely courtyard at the back.
Next to the history museum, with artifacts going back through Vietnamese history which, for the last millennium at least, is one of successful repelling of a whole host of different invaders. There was a mummified woman from the 19th century, for which no real explanation was given, other than I assume every museum worth its salt needs to have a mummy.
After finally booking my tickets for Singapore, we headed to the posh part of town for some food and ate at a Japanese restaurant which seemed to have two staff per customer, despite being very busy. We weren't too adventurous, but the food was good, if small and the lotus crisps were very tasty.
We popped into the shopping mall to see if there was a film on, but had missed the English version, so went back for a couple of beers before bed. The prices in the mall weren't much cheaper than at home and Indeed the only difference seemed to me that the Vietnamese seemed to be taking great interest in the sort of store promotions that tend to get ignored at home -there were queues to sign up for so and so credit card to win a motorbike or some such.
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