Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Travel Blogs

... coffee houses surrounding this area, but today's dinner would be had elsewhere. As I don't have my bootleg photocopied Vietnam LP guidebook beside me, any attempt to remember this restaurant's unpronounceable name will be futile, but this was one *good* ...

A travel blog entry by sirrocko711
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Vietnam, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) - "Same Same" Arrived early afternoon into Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City as it is now known, and our first task was to find a hotel as from here onwards we haven't booked any accommodation..... Using the faithful ...

A travel blog entry by mikeandmarisha
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We left a chilly, drizzly Hanoi on the 2nd and flew down to Ho Chi Minh City via Pacific Airlines. As some sort of Happy New Year promotion, the airline was giving out prizes to randomly picked passengers. Halfway through the flight I heard an announcement ...

A travel blog entry by luolan
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Happy New Year! The journey back to Vietnam was long, if uneventful. It felt like a homecoming of sorts. The second we crossed the border, I had to restrain myself from hugging the first lady I saw wearing a conical hat. Maybe I only had 2 dollars left in ...

A travel blog entry by luolan
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We are now getting used to the Vietnamese minibuses which rudely drop us off at the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) but I still feel apprehensive knowing that we will have to continue our journey balancing precariously on the back of a motorcycle and ...

A travel blog entry by rachel_john
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... 't be for at least 5/6 weeks, so don't check BBC news all the time worrying about us, ok.   When we got to Ho Chi Minh City, (lets call it Saigon, easier to spell), the bus dropped us right in the middle of backpacker land, how convenient! The ...

A travel blog entry by emmaandemma
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... in endless circles, never pausing for a breath (or allowing us a non-rude escape.) We chatted deeply about China, the US, relations between Vietnam and the US, Vietnam's (bad) history with China, etc... Then he looped around and started talking about it ...

A travel blog entry by sirrocko711
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Wednesday 5th May We moved on to Saigon today. Now Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1975 but you wouldn't really know it as everyone still calls it Saigon. I will call it Saigon cause every one else does and writing Ho Chi Minh City all the time ...

A travel blog entry by lizandsimon
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... . A short flight brought us from the ultra-sedate and orderly Singapore to the vibrant chaos of Saigon (now officially known as "Ho Chi Minh City". Forget any preconceptions you may have, a lot has changed since the "American War" ended back in 1975. Tall ...

A travel blog entry by globedecker
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... this year. It was clear we were only just clinging to our sanity. 10/1 09:00 hours. 98 degrees. Saigon, Vietnam. Our first tour of duty around the battleground in temperatures and polution weíve never before experienced in all our years serving the ...

A travel blog entry by escapetherace
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... . Only problem now is that I am carrying round the equivalent of a library-worth of travel books. So are actually leaving Vietnam tomorrow after a great couple of weeks here. Thoroughly recommend it if you are thinking of coming is a great mix of asian ...

A travel blog entry by emanddave
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Yes, Bulgarians do need visa for Vietnam. Note to self - never make plans based on a phone conversation. For example, if the Vietnamese consulate in the UK tells you that you don't need a visa - get one any ways. Not a biggy. Almost any problem ...

A travel blog entry by orizarska
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... he'd seen enough.) Option 3, the nuttiest option: Forgo Chiang Mai and instead continue even further east to the nearby Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh City/HCMC aka Saigon. A longer stay in Cambodia was out, and though it made the most sense logistically, ...

A travel blog entry by sirrocko711
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... fairly well. They LOVE the US dollar! One-dollar bills in your pocket are a must-have. Our tour bus returns to Ho Chi Minh City and we're set loose among the 3-million people and all their motorcycles! Streets are a maze of traffic coming from all ...

A travel blog entry by naysay
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... fastest mouse in all Mehico was mentioned, but I think it will most likely be "Trumpity Trumpity - Speedy Gone Arse Less, the fastest sh*t in all Vietnam" by tomorrow!! We shall see. Tomorrow we will meet our new group for our 3 week tour of Vietnam.

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... off the boat, not literally of course coz that would be stupid! Just at the boat staion where we got our bus back to Ho Chi Minh City. When we got back to the hotel, Lorna and I just collapsed in bed for a couple of hours....to sleep you dirty minded ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... like 'where do we get the bus' where answered by the taxi's with 'oh, there are no buses', again we are learning about Vietnam fast... Our bus dropped us right in the centre of the cheap hotel district and we got a plush place with fridge and tv etc. ...

A travel blog entry by grahamandrach
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... her little sixteen year old niece who looked as hip as any of my New Yorker college students. I was actually surprised how modern Vietnam is now since I last visited in '98. The Vietnamese have progressed in such a short time. I dig Saigon and could live ...

A travel blog entry by adeleray
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Got up for breakfast and then decided to have a walk round the City. First stop was the War Remnants Museum which was really good. There was loads of memorabilia from the war including tanks, planes, helicopters etc. There is also an internal part to the ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... seen in all its digital flesh for some time, but we had an 8am flight (in Business Class we'll have you know) back to Ho Chi Minh City for four more days of seeing what more it could offer us. Once again a member of staff at the Thienh Thanh hotel had ...

A travel blog entry by escapetherace
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... ; And compared to the days of The American War, things are quite peaceful and calm, except for the traffic.  Ho Chi Minh City...or Saigon ...is absolute traffic madness!   There are literally millions of motor scooters in the streets and ...

A travel blog entry by jeffsadventures
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... Tours giving us all an introduction to Vietnam! The rep made the remaining two hour journey from the border to Ho Chi Minh City very entertaining, by singing songs, teaching us Vietnamese phrases and explaining some of the history of Saigon; now known as ...

A travel blog entry by jawad
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... . It was a really sad day all round, and the effects of those chemicals are still a very real problem for the people of Vietnam today. The next day it was time to say goodbye to Tibbs... Tom and I left him in bed (after jumping in and giving him ...

A travel blog entry by you_know_zo
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We decided to get a taxi to the airport for our first fight on Vietnam Air to Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon as it was previously known). On the flight the guy in front of Rick put his seat back as far as he could, right into his knees. On takeoff we flew ...

A travel blog entry by eatdessertfirst
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... bit perilous, and that motorbikes are hazardous to one's health, Jan and I booked bus tickets for our journey south to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). So after one more day enjoying the giant frogger game that is the Old Quarter, we boarded our first ...

A travel blog entry by jmo
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I never got around to write about my visit, so just pictures from Vietnam. On the other hand, here is a story I did on a girl from Northen Vietnam who did not have the chance to go to school:  http://www. ...

A travel blog entry by orizarska
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After some bumpy plane rides and losing the entire day of May 5th, we have arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, better known to many as Saigon. It was nice to have two medium length flights rather than one long transpacific flight and sleeping most of the way from ...

A travel blog entry by kally563
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... 40km north-west of Saigon. The Vietcong build a network of 256km tunnels here to fight and hide from the Americans in the Vietnam war. Our guide for the day was a Vietnamese man who fought for the Americans during the war, he had some interesting stories ...

A travel blog entry by christosp
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To be honest, Vietnam was so long ago now, and so much has happened since, it's going to be difficult to describe what Saigon was like (I haven't even written it up in my diary yet...). I arrived early morning as always, another easy bus journey ...

A travel blog entry by roadtrip
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... by our traffic circle one last time watching the scooters roll by, slurped at some pho and digested a final dose of Ho Chi Minh's madness. I wanted to give Apocalypse Now Club another visit but was rightly dissuaded by a schedule-conscious Jeff who feared ...

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