A man after my own heart with similar interests lol. I find this sort of stuff fascinating and why I toured around France and still do due to there being so much historic stuff to see. There is so much to learn and it looks like they have a great collection of war toys to inspect. We don't get to hear the entire story of what goes on as it is normally from one side only. I would definitely look this up if I end up in Saigon.
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If you do go to Saigon, go there only for the museums and then get taxis straight to the entrance. I was so put off by the amount of scam artists that are surrounding that and basically any other attraction in the city. It turns you off towards ever speaking to any Vietnamese person. I know better because I have lived here for years but good gawd was it awful at the perimeters of these places. It is so bad that there are security guards at the entrances that are very hesitant to allow any Vietnamese man in at all.
Sounds really bad and reminds me on Maputo in Mozambique where they follow the tourists and I was fully aware of this and the only time I have really been concerned. There must have been between 6 and 8 individuals following me and I lost some of them but they soon caught up again and why I returned to the harbor early.
oh well at least it isn't like that here. I have always said that one of the main things I really like about Vietnam is that it is exceptionally safe. I have never heard of anyone being a victim of any sort of violent crime or armed robbery here. I'm sure it happens but it has to be extremely rare. While there are annoyances and rip-off artists here nobody ever gets violent. They might shout at you saying mean things if you refuse to pay 10x what something is worth, but they aren't ever going to follow you or attack you. That situation you described sounds awful. I'll put Mozambique on my "no go" list.