Central Post Office Ho Chi Minh City

A short flight from Australia and I was in Vietnam, not just a different country but seemingly a different world and different sort of a existence.
Vietnamese Immigration presented some immediate problems, regarding my VISA.
I was left at the back of a very long queue, awaiting Asian acceptance. The process is needlessly long and drawn-out …

Sunday, July 10
Chris and I booked a city tour of Ho Chi Minh City through our hotel for $9 each. The tour bus/van was supposed to pick us up in front of our hotel at 8:30. At 9:00 a guy working for the tour company shows up and tells us to follow him. We walk several blocks in the heat, then he pays a driver on a motorcycle to take Chris and …

Touched down Tan Son Nhat Airport at 1am Ho Chi Minh time (GMT+7). Our hotel's airport pick-up service was already there when we got out of the terminal. Surprisingly, we did not fill out any arrival card and our luggage weren't checked at the airport.

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) proper is only 15minutes away from the airport at that time of …

After a pleasant flight from bangkok to HCMC, we boarded the cronky airport bus for the city. We didnt have the 8000 dong needed for the fare so instead of the bus driver ripping us off with dollars a nice young man paid for our tickets! What a nice welcome!

We arrived at our hotel only to find our favourite Texan sitting in the lobby! ( …

Hi All,

Had a fantastic day today, even after a terrible nights sleep!! Having a bit of trouble adjusting to the time difference.

Got up early, had breakfast at the hotel, then went for second breakfast at Pho 24.

We tried to do the Lonely Planet guide walking tour, EPIC FAIL!! We ended up being stalked by a cyclo …

31 January 2005 (Monday)
This morning, I read the newspaper on the topic of "sixth lives lost in Vietnam" due to bird flu and a suspected human-to-human infection in Thailand, causing a nation-wide panic. Heeded as a warning, I still boarded the flight for Ho Chi Minh City (a.k.a. Saigon) at 2.30pm (Singapore time). There were two of us and …

We had a good start to the day with our first taste of the famous Vietnamese soup dish of Pho Bo (beef noodle soup). Soup for breakfast seems to be the norm in Asia so we've been eating noodle soup most mornings.

We spent the rest of the day wandering around and stopped by a few of the more famous attractions. The first was the …

The coastal scenery down from Nha Trang was incredibly beautiful, and I would have thoroughly enjoyed all of it, had it not been for the fact that the bus driver stubbornly, despite people going and asking him to stop, refused to let us out to use the bathroom before 5 and a quarter hours had passed.

There is only so much beautiful …

Hallo ihr Lieben!
Nun sind wir in Vietnam. Gerade sitzen wir auf unserem Super bequemen Bett,in unserem recht komfortablen mit Klimaanlage ausgestatteten Zimmer, genießen das hier erhältliche etwas merkwürdige "Baguette" und da bleibt auch noch Zeit für eine kurze Zwischenstandsmeldung.
Die Busfahrt hierher war prima,die Sitze waren bequem, …

Arriving in Ho Chi Minh City, I am struck by the modernity of many of the buildings. If I didn't know better, I would have sworn that this, and not Hanoi was the Capital City of Vietnam! Saigon is full of high rise modern, even futuristic buildings (even one with a helicopter pad, even though we were jocosely informed by our tour guide that not a …

... station to get our heads together. What a rude hour to arrive in a new city!  Saigon Xin Chào from Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City! We’d bundled off Reunification Express at 4am and sat in the station waiting to come round. 5am, after a few ...

... the central post office to escape from the sun but were greeted by a mildly cool luke-warm post office, a fairly grand building, with the daddy; Ho Chi Minh, overseeing proceedings. We met Brent (a Kiwi living in Sydney) and spent the day chatting with ...

Welcome to Saigon!  Well, the official name is Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) but the locals still call it Saigon.  Our travel from Hoi An was very smooth and uneventful (read: bug-free!).  We took the hotel taxi to the airport which was a quiet ...

The early morning bus from Dalat to Ho Chi Minh City brought two tired and irritable customers to their final city in a tour of Vietnam. Two weeks of incessant motorbike horn honking insanity had taken its toll, and the stress of this enormous, highly ...

... wave of heat hit as soon as I got off the plane, and I had officially arrived in Saigon. Well, technically, I had arrived in Ho Chi Minh City. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, it was renamed in the Communist Party's effort to stamp out the past. The ...

... (Vietnamese: Bảo tàng chứng tích chiến tranh) is a war museum in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. It primarily contains exhibits relating to the American phase of the Vietnam War, and is a major tourist attraction. ...

... with numerous ice coffee breaks along the way, we took in all the architectural delights this historic colonial city has to offer: from the central post office to a Chinese Pagoda to the Reunification Palace as well as Saigon's own version of Notre Dame ...

Hello!! Our bus left Dalat at 8:30am on Monday morning for a 6 hour bus ride to Ho Chi Minh City.  We have asked numerous people lately as to what name they use for the city: Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) which is the new name or Saigon, which was the ...

Travelling again on Vietnam time, we arrived late to Ho Chi Minh City. It was 7pm and dark and it seemed that every other bus had arrived just before us, so when we arrived accommodation in the backpackers area was diminishing very quickly. With a ...

Saigon, or as it is now known, Ho Chi Minh city is a wonderful place. Considering it's a big city and we were warned numerous times about the amount of hardcore hassle we'd get from moto riders and sellers and the like, we loved it. We've either become ...