Dam Sen Ho Chi Minh City

Well, we have now arrived in Vietnam's largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, or as it used to be known before the 1975 reunification of South and North Vietnam, Saigon. Our first impressions were that it was an extremly busy and hectic place, fulling of crazy ...

... market (too hot, too crowded, overwhelmed!), we have yet to take a cyclo but we're saving that for the crazy sounding Dam Sen Park (animals made out of coconuts and cd's apparently...) and all the beautiful pagodas that are out of district 1.  ...

... next morning we got up really early for us actually, around half 11 and started a walking tour around the city taking in 2 museums, Ho Chi Minh and the War remnants museum. The second in particular was a brutal example of what happened during the Vietnam ...

... given, OK? 'Twas me birthday yesterday and my friends and I headed out for an adventure at a Vietnamese theme park - Dam Sen Park - a massive complex with ABBA's happy new year song playing on repeat and brides getting their wedding portraits taken ...

Back in Ho Chi Minh City again it was time to do the sights further afield. First day I headed to a suburb in the west of town. First I visited a buddhist temple, one of the oldest in the city. It was pleasant enough but the thing that struck me most ...

... we were a very very small boat all of a sudden! The most interesting part of Vietnamese culture that we saw in Saigon was at the Dam Sen water park. Luc had the bright idea of heading to the water park to get out of the insane heat for the day.... while ...

... like an institution here) and it was really really good. Yesterday I took a cyclo (which is like a bike with a seat on front) to Dam Sen Park which turned out to be like an hour or so away and the poor cyclo driver was about 60 and looked like a ...

... have threatened to visit several along the way in Vietnam but never got round to doing it, and Dam Sen Waterpark (link) is one of the best in Vietnam. Slides, rapids, wave pools, waterfalls, what more could a couple of waterbabies ask for. ...

... this trip. We entered the Park and got changed. Kythera's old cozzie was falling apart so she bought a new one (I like it!). Dam Sen Water Park is absolutely incredible. So many slides. So many different pools. If they did it in Melbourne they'd ...

>Ho CHi Minh City (Formally Saigon) > >Fighting the communism from the North, the center of Vietnam war, >inspired by both French and American culture. A thriving city, with >French Colonial buildings, a population of about 6 million, with ...