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Ho Chi Minh City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Mighty Mekong Mission
After our two consecutive night busses we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City at about 6am, very tired and even more sweaty! We had booked a hotel but it took a while to locate as everyone on the street tries to coax you to different guest houses for ...
Ho Chi Minh City 1
We took the "Mekong Express Limousine Bus" from Pnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City (Only USA $12 per person) - and, in fact, it was excellent! ... 6 hours, comfortable, smooth and organised passing through Cambodian and Vietnam passport/visa controls, and even ...
Loving life in the real world
... 24 hours of sleep, with the sun pouring in the window at 6.30am, it was probably time to get up wasn't it? Out in the city by 7am, we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and managed to hop aboard a tour to the Cu Chi tunnels by 8am. Not bad, I say. Arriving at ...
Oh Saigon I love you...
... that's what we were looking for! In fact we were on the hunt for a cheap pair of trainers, which are made here in Vietnam and therefore sell for a fraction of the price compared to the likes of the UK or Australia. Perched on the back of some motorbike ...
Museum and train ride
... "table" BBQ.. Bacon with cheese, Curry Chicken.. Beef with 5 spices.. A nice good meal before we went for our train trip.. Train trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang.. A 17 hour trip.. Cost $42 USD a person.. What to say.. ;) It was a long trip.. But the ...
Nevermind Tours - Motorbiking VietNam - blog 2 SGN
... to SGN but all good because the flight (VN Airlines) was less than half full. Plenty of room to stretch out and dose. Ho Chi Min City (formerly SaiGon for those who can remember and is still known as SaiGon to the true locals) Is a Fantastic City ...
halong bay - written in saigon, on mum's bday!
... going to happen that i couldn't help but feel that maybe it had been staged, but sean assures me that no security guard in vietnam, in his right mind, has the time to sit about playing games with the monkeys to entertain the falang - of all people! ...
Flower show
Friendly faces As I exited Ho Chi Minh Airport, I was bombarded with a sea of people waiting for their relatives who were returning for the Chinese New Year. The place looked like an open air market where people jostling for their goods. There were ...
Vietnam
January 27- Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)January 28- Cu Chi TunnelsJanuary 29-30- Mekong DeltaJanuary 31- February 3- Mui ...
Saigon... Or is it Ho Chi Minh City?
... was not liberated but destroyed and thats why people originating from the South call it Saigon and all others refer to it as Ho Chi Minh City. With that said, I went to the museum and lasted only an hour. The gruesome, uncensored pictures were a little ...
'Miss Saigon'
From the flooded town of Mui Ne we headed to Hoi Chi Minh city (HCMC), the old capitol. Hanoi was then made the capitol after the Vietnamese war, and the South wasn't allowed to have the capitol, anyway! As we were only there for a day we squeezed as ...
Vietnam War & Tunnels
After today I want to go & buy Vietnam war movies and watch them after finding out more about the war here that happened in the 70's. We Grabbed a bakery item down the road for breakfast as we caught the 8am bus to visit the Cu Chi war ...
1 More night in Asia! (or so I thought...)
I made it across the border ok and back into Vietnam and back to the road where the backpackers stay in Ho Chi Minh. I was approached by a lady who owns a guesthouse so I went along with her and got a really nice room for $7 instead of the $15 that the ...
First weekend in the city!
... to experience, it was also very touristy (which I suppose shouldn't have surprised me seeing as its one of the most famous sites in Vietnam). We started in a thatched hut where a large map of the area, a cross-section of the tunnels and a short black and ...
From one city of bicycles to another
... one just right around the corner from where we were standing. Having fulfilled our coffee-craving, we were now on our way to Ho Chi Minh. Of course, all the taxi drivers at the airport were more than happy to offer us a ride and I'm sure we were ripped ...
Noisy and Nosey
... and apparently the third is even narrower, but can provide an escape to the nearby Mekong river. At night time in Ho Chi Minh, the city is even more crazed than during the day. Many more bikes (we didn't think it was possible) and people harassing you ...
Excuse Me, Your Roaches Are Beginning to Smell....
... ; It is remarkable how you get used to the poverty and bleakness and it starts to lose its edge. Seeing the vibrancy of Vietnam was a stark difference. Met a GH tout at the bus stop and he took the New Zealanders to the Hotel they had booked ...
Miss Saigon
Well....sadly we had to leave the lovely beach town of Nha Trang. During the last two days we went on a boat trip of some nearby island, and snorkeled around a bit. It was great to be in the water, although there was not much to see in the way of marine ...
Ben Thanh Market & Sozo
... . We saw SO MANY PEOPLE! It was incredible - words cannot do it justice. It seemed every Vietnamese person was out with a Vietnam flag on their motorbikes. We saw 60,000 people at least, and that's not even a good estimate, there was probably over a ...
Adventures and Misadventures in the deep south
... time to see more. So with tearful good-byes until later, Kimberly and Sabrina headed off to the beach and I left for Ho Chi Minh City (official name)/Saigon (as it is often referred to). Those are the answers to your trivia - 10 points if you ...
The Last Sunset
Well last night I watched my last sunset on Phu Quoc island. It was a beautiful end to an amazingly relaxing week. Unfortunately I had to depart before Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, which I was assured to be a grand production. The bungalows that ...
Saigon
... religion' fusing Budhism, Islam, Christianity, Confucism... and the end result is some crazy cult that has 2 million followers in South Vietnam. The cult worship a giant eye with a weird eyebrow in order to stop the cycle of reincarnation. Its hard not to ...
This one time... in 'NAM!!!
... beth again grabbed breakfast while i layed in bed. Then we grabbed a tuk tuk to the bus station and hopped on our bust to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. This was supposed to be a 10 hour bus ride... more on that later. We were AGAIN the only westerners on the ...
Banners, flags and dancing in the streets
... the locals in equal measure. We could only wonder what on earth they'd do if they won?! So, this was Saigon - officially Ho Chi Minh City but the rules on the use of Saigon are gradually becoming more relaxed and it's much more acceptable. Not as cute ...
The Adventure Begins
... , as well as the odd bus is passing within inches, both in front and behind you. And at the same time. All motorcycles in Vietnam are very small, mostly scooters, but still big enough to hurt or kill you. Here is link to a short video I took ...
War Museum
... and interesting but also very heavy and completely against Americans. There were some incredibly photographs of soldiers and citizens in Vietnam at that time. The museum also showed a clear picture of the atrocities of war as well. They had a whole ...
Following in the footsteps of Top Gear
... floating markets, albeit in the pouring rain that meant we all invested in some particularly fetching ponchos. It was then on to Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon to most of us) where we took in the harrowing and fascinating (if very one sided and propagandistic!) ...
might as well MISS saigon
... day. This surprised me a bit- especially since most motorbikes had at least 3 people on them... if not more. In Ho Chi Minh we visited the War Remnants Museum, Cu Chi Tunnels, and Mekong Delta. It was hard to walk through the War ...
Saigon and the Mekong Delta
... nbsp;It's all there. If you've got an alarm clock and a boat, you can find tons of fresh produce, meat, fish... Whatever your heart desires. We are seriously going to miss Vietnam. Cambodia has some very large shoes to fill. ...
