Back in Saigon- the Fine Art museum

After 17 hours on the night train, I arrived back in Ho Chi Minh City. The train was pretty uneventful- I had a bed so slept the pretty much the whole way, (in spite of the woman in my carriage who hadn't heard to headphones, and was playing her music out loud!) 

I checked into the hostel I'd stayed in before and met an English girl and a German girl in my dorm room. We went out for dinner together and attempted to go on a pub crawl which didn't seem to get going very well- but I had a nice evening none the less. 

The next day, having already seen most of the sights, I thought I'd go to the Fine Art Museum. The English girl had been there the day before and said it was good. After walking for a while, getting lost a bit, and getting chatted up by a weird Vietnamese guy who wanted to buy me lunch (!) I eventually found it. 

Back in Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnamese art is very good and it was interesting to see. They had a modern art section- post 1975, a sculpture section and a ceramics section.

One of the sculptures 

Some Vietnamese hats, painted with Christmas patterns by school children

As well as some interesting, and original artwork, they also had some propaganda paintings from the war. These were Anti-American- depicting all American soldiers as evil and stupid.

Some of the posters

Some more of the posters 

They had some masks stuck onto a bit of wood in one section. One of them was made up of $1 notes.

The masks in the art gallery

Some of the artwork in the gallery

After I had seen the rest of the gallery, I chilled at the hostel before grabbing some dinner, and getting an early night in preparation for my early flight!