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Ho Chi Minh City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Traffic Madness of Saigon
This is a top pick! ... ; 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 ...
Overland to Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... Happy 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 ...
The Reunification Express to Saigon
This is a top pick! ... the 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 ...
Vietnam Business Capital
This is a top pick! Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC; also known as Saigon) with its over 5 million people runs a continuous soundtrack of cell phones, horns honking (motorbikes & cars), and buildings going up all around, signaling another day in the "business capital" of the ...
Sleeping Pills and Swedish Scrabble
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Visit with Room to Read
This is a top pick! 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: ...
Tour of Duty Free
This is a top pick! ... 'd seen 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 ...
Hello Saigon
This is a top pick! ... three weeks ago. The city, though, certainly has a grasp of its history. After arriving in what is officially now called Ho Chi Minh City at 5 am, I found a hotel, relaxed for a little and headed to the War Remnants Museum. There was certainly a bias to ...
Saigon Arrival
This is a top pick! 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 ...
There's Something About Saigon
This is a top pick! ... were originally built by the South Vietnamese to evade the French and were later expanded as a key tactical strategy during the Vietnam War. Crouching inside, sweating, with Jason’s head and heart pounding, it was beyond our imaginations to ...
Handi-crafts Workshop
This is a top pick! ... ; I needed no guy in lab coat to quote any statistics to know that Agent Orange and other toxins used during the Vietnam War cause irreperable and atrocious physical and mental damage. Whatever the specific substance, a huge number of people were ...
Saigon - Day 108
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Just Passin' Thru
This is a top pick! Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon is a bustling mega-city. Vietnam's capitol, Hanoi, in the north cannot compare when you look at the wealth of Saigon. But missing in Saigon is the Vietnamese charm that only the country's capitol ...
Lazy day coz it's Sunday!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Vietnamese culture
This is a top pick! ... Buddhist. There are still some differences. In Thailand, the culture seems more reserved and detached. Not so in Vietnam. Very expressive and interested. When I flew back to Bangkok for my flight home, I found the city ...
Uneventful day in HCMC
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Days 79-80: Olympics & The Immigration Officer
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Good Morning Vietnam!!!
This is a top pick! Hello and Good Morning from Nam, Our first stop is to Ho Chi Minh (HCMC or simply Saigon) for two nights. As soon as we stepped foot in Vietnam we were confronted with the loud, overbearing, stiffling chaos with the constant background noise of million ...
Gooood Morning Vietnam!
This is a top pick! ... room followed by a nice hot shower I really felt like Robin Williams when he'd shout "Gooood Morning Vietnam!" First full day in Ho Chi Minh City. What better way to start than breakfast at Pho 2000, where President Bill Clinton also tried the ...
Flight to Saigon
This is a top pick! ... a cool little apartment building that housed more permenant tenants than travelers. It also had a great rooftop garden and a view of the city. It also had AC, a fridge, Cable TV, and internet in the room. Such a place costs $10 a ...
It's called Saigon!
This is a top pick! ... 's not hard to see why the war was so unpopular in America, the museum almost acts as an Anti-American exhibition (although Vietnam no longer bears a grudge). The museum also has real bombs, guns and mines to look at. Outside there are helicopters, planes ...
Last Stop: Saigon
This is a top pick! So, we were off on the open bus once again yesterday, travelling from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). We left about an hour late, but this time, however, we also arrived at our destination over two hours late. The countryside became much drier ...
Just don't mention the war...
This is a top pick! ... my backpack, so it would be best that another lucky shopper take her home instead. That, in essence, was my time in Ho Chi Mihn City - glamourous and glitzy as a Broadway production, liberal and progressive as probably no other place in Vietnam can be. It ...
Back to Ho Chi Minh City - and to bed!
This is a top pick! ... dropped 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 ...
No stop Saigon
This is a top pick! ... of the visit to the museum was to see that how many civilians were killed in a war that was never won. During the Vietnam War 3 million Vietnamese were killed, among those 2 million civilians, in addition 2 million people were injured and 300,000 went ...
War remnants and another meeting with the Mekong
This is a top pick! ... to another busy city - this time Vietnam's biggest, at about 7 million people. Before the short morning flight from Danang to Ho Chi Minh City (still called Saigon by most people, it seems) on Tuesday the 2nd, we had arranged our two scheduled days there ...
Andrew gets his dong out in the bank
This is a top pick! Anyway we wake up in Vietnam and decide it's time to get some local currency (The Vietnamese Dong). Having no knowledge of exchange rates we couldn't resist but to get 1 million Dongs out. (Turns out it is only about 35 Pounds) At last we are ...
Doing Vietnam: the highlands and the coast
This is a top pick! ... a beach straight from the Fa and Bounty commercials. Life was good. S-S-S-S-SAIGON With a half a day to spare in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), I wandered between the French era cathedral and train station, and the royal palace which was the ...
Trip-tastic temple and tunnels
This is a top pick! We arrived back from our tropical paradise with a bump into the metropolis that is Ho Chi Minh City: home of seven million motorbikes. That afternoon we revisited our favourite cafe Sozo (the one where eating a muffin helps local people) before a bit of ...
Get in the hole!!!!
This is a top pick! ... the Americans and Southern Vietnamese (AKA the puppet army). The tunnels were the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War, and were the Viet Cong's base of operations for the Tết Offensive in 1968. They lived within ...