See the car that carried Thich Quang Duc to Saigon
Behind the main hall, unsigned
Thien Mu is a working monastery on the Perfume River about 5.5 km from the centre, best known for its seven-storey Phuoc Duyen tower. The car is in a room behind the main hall.
Why it's unique
On 11 June 1963 the monk Thich Quang Duc was driven to a Saigon intersection and burned himself to death in protest at the Diem government's treatment of Buddhists. Malcolm Browne's photograph of it went around the world and changed the course of the war.
The car that took him is here, alongside that photograph. It is a single object attached to a single event almost everyone has seen, sitting in a pagoda courtyard a few kilometres outside Hue.
Before you go
Most visitors photograph the tower from the river steps and leave without ever knowing the car is there. It is behind the main hall and you have to walk through and round to find it; nothing at the front points to it.
This is a working monastery and the room is a memorial rather than an exhibit. Behave accordingly, and do not treat it as a photo opportunity.
Arrive by dragon boat up the river rather than by road if you can. It is the better approach and it is how the pagoda is meant to be seen.