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Cholon/ Chinatown/ District 5
Built at the beginning of the last century, Cha Tam Church has a pleasing pastel yellow and white paint job and a peculiar statue in the tower. More interestingly it was here, one night in November 1963, that hated President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother sought sanctuary from a coup. They were finally rescued by troops in a personnel carrier. The same troops went on to stab and kill them on their way back into the center of Saigon. The church is worth a short stop on the way to Cholon Market.
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a little out of the way but...
by A Yahoo! Contributor on 2008-05-10
Many people (including Vietnamese friends) told me not to bother to go to Cho Lon, so I did anyway. I ended up in the church school yard just ...
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