Dam Sen Water Park Ho Chi Minh City

For Christmas we stayed in a snazzy hotel in HCMC courtesy of Muma Rushton (thank you). The hotel was within a stones throw of the market which kept Abs happy, particularly because it was bursting with "genuine" fakes.

The first thing we did in HCMC (that's Ho Chi Minh City for those in the know) was visit the War Remnants Museum, which …

Was so good to be in a nice room in Ho Chi Minh with Sammy, bless her she was knackered from all her travelling (4 flights!) so we were both spark out. I woke up early this morn and thought wow its my birthday, and lay and thought about all my precious family and loved ones, with us and not with us. Can't believe I have hit 27, this seems so much …

The waterpark situated in Saigon is amazing. It's not the massive one 45 minutes from the CBD but the medium sized one just outside if the center. At first, I was quite skeptical as there was what looked like a billion motorbikes each carrying 4 people. All that was going through my mind was... There are going to be A LOT of queues in that park. < …

Buses in HCMC are very easy to use. If you're planning a trip to Dam Sen Water Park, go to the bus station opposite Ben Thanh market ( on the other side of the roundabout) and get on bus number 11. There are a lot of buses parked there, but 11 does not park, you have to wait on the back side of the building facing the buses and get on as it drives …

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 ...

... many water parks. After unsuccessfully trying to get to one, walking about in the boiling heat, we eventually got a bus to Dam Sen water park. A water park is a great place to forgive each other after an argument about nothing on a hot, sweaty morning, a ...

... 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 I ...

... 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 make ...

... testiment to a troubled time. Silhouette of the Notre Dame Cathedral Ending on a slightly lighter note, we took a trip to Dam Sen Water Park in an attempt to evade the absolutely searing heat (around 40 degrees C!). The LP suggested we go during ...

... were going to (formerly recommended by the same Receptionist) had closed down.  We took a vote on a Cultural Theme Park or the Dam Sen Water Park we had visited two days prior.  The Water Park was again a clear favourite. I went on the ...

... small pagodas in Cholon.  Things to see and do:   * Reunification Palace * War Remnants Museum * Cholon (Chinatown) * Dam Sen Water Park in District 11 and Saigon Water Park * Ben Thanh Market and Night marketCruise Season - Jan - Dec   ...

Dam Sen Water Park HCMC. We caught a taxi from out the front of the hotel; it cost VND 85,000 and dropped us right out the front. We walked in and saw the monster; the massive water slide called the Kamikaze and next to it the slide called Tornado.  ...

... Noisy people at the GH woke us up at 7, in rebellion we didn't leave until 12ish for lunch. We then got a taxi to the Dam Sen Water Park having been told to wait until after lunch so all the kids had gone back to school. Being 2 of the very few ...

... our tour group thin enough to disappear down a original Viet Cong hidden trap door into a tunnel.  Today we went to dam sen water park. yaaaaay! We got straight in the pool via the 19 meter high slide. There were slides with mats, rubber rings ...