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Ho Chi Minh City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Big water babies
This is a top pick! ... Many of the rooms are still decorated in a very 1960s style, including the padded rooftop bar. Next up was the City of Ho Chi Minh museum. This basically told the story of Saigon and the cultural history of Vietnam. The main reason for us going ...
The city of chaos
This is a top pick! ... . Making Singapore the gateway to Asia is almost cruel to other countries, they can't help but look shabby in comparison. Although I doubt Ho Chi Minh City would look pristine in comparison to the bottom of a rock. Like the bottom of a rock the city it ...
Bodged up River Trip
This is a top pick! Well buggered things up slightly this morning, as I had set my clock wrong. Unfortunately my travel clock actually doesnt travel! - too much motion and it resets itself so I set it last night according to a test screen page on the TV which showed an ...
Leaving Cambodia
This is a top pick! Day 74 - Phnom Penh - Ho Chi Minh City Another un-horrific bus journey (actual travelling wise anyway) and we've arrived in Saigon. Like I say, the travelling was fine despite the best efforts of the bumpy Cambodian roads (the Vietnamese roads are ...
Ho Chi Minh City
This is a top pick! Day 75 - Ho Chi Minh City I arose early this morning (admittedly with the assistance of the alarm clock) and resisted the temptation to scream "Good morning Vietnaaaaaaammmm!". Just. HCMC (or Saigon as it is still referred to by practically all the ...
Last Stop in Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... 're fed some information (via a lot of really good photographs) and some propaganda. Better off to read 'Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War' available at Borders Books!! It still is amazing to be here and to see a different perspective and photos taken by ...
Saigon
This is a top pick! Ho Chi Minh City-Saigon 16th&20th to 22nd January 2009 We have decided to take the easy option and jump on a cheap Jet Star flight to Saigon. At Saigon airport we took a metered taxi, note the word 'metered' unlike the majority of Hanoi taxis whose ...
Cao Dai Temple and Cu Chi Tunnels
This is a top pick! ... . All while our bus trundles through the crowded streets of the cities third name - motorbike city (the other 2 names being Ho Chi Minh City and Saigon if you're a southerner.) 11:04 Our first stop was actually another handicapped handicrafts ...
Saigon and the summing up of Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... " Which from what we now know among other words means 'challenging.' You (the reader) will have noticed whilst reading this Vietnam blog that the words overcharged, scammed and ripped off appears often. Of course in most countries this is common for ...
Last stop in Vietnam... Saigon
This is a top pick! ... buildings which make the centre interesting to visit. There is the Rex Hotel where the journalists were briefed during the Vietnam War, City Hall and an Opera House which all have good French architecture. We drop by the market on our way ...
Tourist Paradise
This is a top pick! ... the end of World War II, Ho Chi Minh received financial assistance from the US to be used against the invading Japanese. Ho Chi Minh means "Bringer of Light". The Tet Offensive was the turning point of the Vietnam War. On the lunar new year, in ...
Beer Hoi
This is a top pick! ... (woo hoo), then as we were all feeling a little lazy (ok, hungover) we rented out cyclos and did a 2 hr tour of the city, taking in some pagodas and the reunification palace. (For those who are unaware, a cyclo is a bike with a throne like seat attached ...
Saigon by Vespa
This is a top pick! ... on buffet breakfast jostling with hundreds of Asians wanting food NOW, we headed downstairs to meet our guides for the morning from Vietnam Vespa Adventures. Our guide Dat was waiting for us and took us outside where 3 very cool little Vespas were parked ...
Lazy Day Roundabouts
This is a top pick! I have very little to say today, I did even less than yesterday! And not because I'm traumatised and hiding, no, I'm so over that now, and fine, it's just that as I'm going to be full steam ahead for the next week I thought I'd make the most of a day of ...
Saigon calling...
This is a top pick! 13:56 I checked out today as I'm heading to Saigon. The people of the south still call it that as the name Ho Chi Minh City is a bit of a 'well we won the war so we'll rub it in by calling your capital the name of the person half the population left the ...
Last day in Siem Reap, off to Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... was sad to be leaving a place we'd grown to love in a very short space of time. After a quick flight, we landed in Ho Chi Minh city and were at once assaulted by the noise, sound, smells and sheer volume of people. It was somewhat of a culture ...
Scary Scams
This is a top pick! 11:41 I slept alone last night, and just before 9 a group of people arrived. I went for breakfast and decided to take a walk round to see what I found. Of course walking is the surest way to be accosted by motorbike and cyclo men wanting to take you ...
Ho Chi Minh City
This is a top pick! Days 76 - 77 - Ho Chi Minh City I had no pre-conceived ideas as to what Ho Chi Minh City would offer but I have been impressed thus far. I knew there would be hassles but they are never as bad as you fear. sure you are offered allsorts of merchandie ...
Hanging with Uncle Ho
This is a top pick! ... sure why - we haven't been particularly busy. Just lazy I guess. So this one's for all the way back when we were in Ho Chi Minh city, also know as Saigon (even by the locals - I don't think they're doing back-flips about their "liberation" yet). The ...
More of HCMC
This is a top pick! Day 78 - Ho Chi Minh City Our second day trip - this time to the Mekong Delta and we were fortunate to land ourselves another decent guide (Hoang - used to be a VJ on Vietnamese MTV (verified by the fact all the younger people recognise him) but had to ...
May 12 2008
This is a top pick! ... conference hall. The second floor has a map room, the office of the president of the republic of Vietnam, the president's international reception room, the national reception room, the vice-president's reception room, credentials presentation room, ...
Markets, Cu Chi Tunnels & Water Puppets
This is a top pick! ... ; After an incredible couple of hours we boarded the boat to take us back to Saigon (it seems no one there calls it Ho Chi Minh City) and were treated to a lunch of local Vietnamese cuisine which was delicious. I found the trip fascinating, it was a ...
May 11 2008
This is a top pick! ... and seemed to pass out, the flight was over before we knew it, although we arrived about 40 minutes late. We survived Vietnam customs and picked up our bags quickly. We walked out looking for the driver we arranged for to our hotel. ...
Indigestible Capitalism
This is a top pick! Took the 9.40am Jetstar flight to Ho Chi Minh City (HCM). The airport in Hue was similar to the Milas Airport in Turkey. It was run efficiently and the staff spoke good English. My Boeing 747 took off promptly.We were in HCM 1 hour and 10 minutes ...
May 14-15 2008
This is a top pick! We decided to sleep in because our bed is so comfortable. Having no outside window doesn't make it any easier to get up. Our room is pretty dark with the lights off. We finally got up and went for some breakfast/lunch at Brew ...
Long wait..........
This is a top pick! Day 146 ; Ended up waiting an extra hour and a half for our bus all because the people running them don't have a clue what is going on, didn't end up too bad, we got a free upgrade!! To sleeper and as the girls who got on the other bus we were ment to ...
AK47....
This is a top pick! ... ve had a full, fun day and it was really cool to see the way they hang out and use these parks at night, not sure what city life is like back home but can't imagine you could wander through the park late and night and wander up to a group of strangers and ...
May 13 2008
This is a top pick! We thought today we would go to the War Remnants Museum. We got up early and had our included breakfast at the hotel, which was made up of tea, juice and a toasted baguette. A bit stingy we thought. We then made our way north of the ...
Apocolypse now!
... fish with a spicy sauce and learnt how to roll a spring roll... then feasted! As an end to our time in Ho Chi Mihn city we ventured into town for a few drinks and bumped into a group of Mekong delta doctors celebrating there colleagues achievements in ...