Le Van Tam Park
Leafy urban park built over a colonial-era cemetery, now centered on a martyr's statue and children's playground.
This guide to Le Van Tam Park in Ho Chi Minh City starts underground, with a colonial-era cemetery that held French sailors, governors and even a war correspondent from 1859 onward, and a 1971 order to tear down part of its wall over a fortune teller's warning about a trapped ghost. You'll hear how Vietnam's government decided in 1983 that the whole graveyard had to go, giving families two months to claim their dead before the park you're standing in replaced it. It follows the search for a hero to name the new park after, and what historians later found when they went looking for him. Locals still talk about the old ghosts as you walk the lawns.
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