Country Info
- Hanoi
- Capital
- Dong (VND)
- Currency
- 79,939,014
- Population
- VN
- Country Code
Vietnam Slideshow
Top Hotels in Saigon
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Morning Star Hotel Hanoi
46 reviews -
Riverside Hotel Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
147 reviews -
Sea and Sand Hotel Hoi An
40 reviews
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Hotel Chau Au Europa Dalat
28 reviews
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ATS Hotel Hanoi
28 reviews -
Nam Hai 1 Hotel Hanoi
41 reviews
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Lucky Eden Hotel Hanoi
10 reviews
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Hanoi Serenity Hotel
350 reviews -
Lac Vien Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
73 reviews
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Hanoi Phoenix Hotel
161 reviews
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Pastel Inn Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
7 reviews
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Hello Vietnam Hotel Hanoi
5 reviews
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Hoa Hong Hotel Hue
6 reviews
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Bamboo Green Harbourside Hotel Da Nang
6 reviews
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Golden Hotel Hanoi
66 reviews
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Hanoi Amazing hotel
133 reviews
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Thien Thanh Hotel Hoi An
435 reviews
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Bamboo Village Beach Resort & Spa Phan Thiet
68 reviews
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Hue Sports 1 Hotel
82 reviews
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Nhi Nhi Hotel Hoi An
316 reviews
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Thien Trung Hotel Hoi An
95 reviews -
La Dolce Vita Hotel Hanoi
60 reviews
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Golden Sun Legend Hanoi
320 reviews
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Dong Xanh Hotel Hoi An
226 reviews
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Sunny Hotel Hanoi
12 reviews
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Huong Sen Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
105 reviews
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Hanoi Cozy Hotel
58 reviews
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Hai Dang Hotel Hue
15 reviews
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Saigon Mini Hotel 7 Ho Chi Minh City
9 reviews
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Thanh Phat Hotel Hoi An
2 reviews
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Saigon Mini Hotel 5 Ho Chi Minh City
360 reviews
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Villa Hue
94 reviews
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Thanh Xuan (Long Life) Hotel Hoi An
343 reviews
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Hanoi Queen 2 Hotel
19 reviews
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Lucky Eden 2 Hotel Hanoi
2 reviews
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Hue Holiday Hotel
634 reviews
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Bodega Hotel Hanoi
84 reviews
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Hanoi Centre 1 Hotel
12 reviews
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Crystal Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
18 reviews
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Hong Ngoc 3 Hotel Hanoi
38 reviews
Saigon
Travel Blogs from Saigon, Vietnam
24 hours in crazy Saigon
Landed in Saigon for another not exactly warm welcome to the city... I tried to get on a bus from the airport to the city centre, but when the bus turned up, the driver didn't let me in and soon after sped off. Thanks. A taxi driver spotted a lady in ...
Champ village by rowing boat and then Saigon
... river and the people werejust standing aroung in stunned silence. At one point we came across a funeral for one of the passengers. Saigon was noisy and I found a place in the backpackers area. FOOTNOTE: I stayed at Duna Hotel which is in ...
The Mekong Delta, and the search for Vo Van Tai
... that the larger companies are taxed heavily and many of the tour agencies are "joint ventures" with the gov't, though. Clearly, Vietnam is still governed by an authoritarian regime, but other than large red signs and flags with the Vietnamese star and/or ...
Down to Saigon
... the money I have saved, not how badly I got ripped off. So we opted for the additional $12 investment it cost to fly. Saigon is fairly massive and sprawling. It was also full of chaotic honking traffic, but we found it a little easier to manage than that ...
Just a quick one today as not much has ...
Just a quick one today as not much has happened. Still enjoying Saigon although I've got an idea of why some people don't. After I last wrote we went to the War Remnants Museum. To say it was horrific is an understatement. Amazingly I'd never heard of ...
City Gal Back in the City
... be just less hot and hence less stifling but I haven't been tracking the temp so can't say for sure. A bit about Saigon traffic. It definitely takes a bit of getting used to and was undoubtedly the first thing I noticed about the city, especially when ...
5 million people and 10 million motorbikes
... ziemlich robuste kerle. nicht so duenne spatzen wie die thais oder manch oesterreicher ;-). hab mich irgendwie nicht so auf vietnam gefreut weil ich schlechte geschichten von andereren reisenden ueber die menschen gehoert habe. das sie halt nicht so ...
Smuggling cigarettes into Vietnam
Well, the bus was 2 hours and the boat was 5 hours travelling from PP to Chau Doc... Crossing the vietnam border was not as overwhelming as Cambodia.. We arrived by boat and had to climb up a mud slide to check out of Cambodia and then walked over to the ...
War Remnants Museum
... just come out sounding like another silly rant. Well, here goes anyway. Approximately 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War...and 5 million Vietnamese (1 million combatants and 4 million civilians)! Then there are the survivors of both sides, who ...
All guns blazing!
... Reunification Palace (think 70's retro kitch) and being brought back down to earth by the War Remnants museum. Saigon Day 2 One of the highlights of Vietnam for us are the Cu Chi tunnels which we visited this morning. The tunnels are about an ...
Motorcycle Madness
A bit of a farce at the border crossing into Vietnam. Stamp this, stamp that, pay for this and pay for that, however we did have a laugh. The ten or so immigration officials were certainly over jovial about something, possibly how much money ...
Follow the Ho Chi Minh Trail!
... vehicles fly within inches of, though thankfully not over (ideally), you. Other interesting bits about Vietnam: - boat ride up the Mekong River to Vietnam from Cambodia was cool - though could not get the ...
Saigon
Wednesday June 30-Friday July 2 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam We were very lucky when we returned from the Easy Rider tour and were told that we could get the Wednesday flight to Ho Chi Minh City (the government favors that name, the residents ...
Saigon
... and the shocking Museum of Attrocoties, cataloguing most gruesomely the effects of Agent Orange on civilians. We'd been a little petrified about Saigon since someone in New Zealand warned us that she'd seen people shooting up in her hotel, but the city ...
Ho Chi Minh City
... early start from Phonh Pehn on various buses being droped at various places until we safely arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)in Southern Vietnam. Managed to find a hotel easily as the place is full of hotels, restaurants, bars and 4 million ...
Lots of Learning ..
... , though not as charming as Ha Noi (but we also spent more time in the North). We made ourselves busy tourists in Saigon, visting museums, the Independence Palace, Parks and doing way too much walking ... The most striking museums for me was the "War ...
Same Same, but Different!
... war. True it was a war, and it is also a country! Here is my top 5 first thoughts and impressions about Vietnam. 1. Alphabet soup...... Not many Vietnamese people seem to speak English? But luckily for me Vietnamese use the Latin/English alphabet. ...
Weekend Excursions -- for the first 7 weeks.
... great mountainside Buddhist pagodas on the way up the mountain though! Well worth the trip, and a great introduction to traveling in Vietnam. Cao Bang: The next trip was an extended 4-day weekend to Cao Bang, a 10-hour bus ride north through some ...
Saigon Saigon!
... in 2 museums, Ho Chi Minh and the War remnants museum. The second in particular was a brutal example of what happened during the Vietnam conflict with loads of photos on the wall, of soldiers, victims of napalm bombs and numerous others. There was also a ...
More Waterways and back to Saigon
... back to Vinh Long for lunch and more markets. This time fruit and meats and vegetables. Headed off back to Saigon about 2.30... approximately 160kms ...... with the traffic takes 4 and half hours!!!! Every place takes hours to get there ...
Place to Stay in Saigon/HCMC
A bit more expensive than the others ($15/single room) but I can not think of a hotel with a nicer environment. Run by lovely women - all who are fun to chat with, and shower you with yummy spring rolls & noodles every evening, tea & breakfast ...
Getting ready
Well I got my motorbike back from getting a custom luggage holder fabricated, it's not exactly how I wanted it, but it will do just fine. Yesterday as I was right in the middle of buying the bike a guy came up and asked me how my bike searching had gone ...
Saigon once again
... in your face extravagant consumption beside extreme poverty appeals to me for some reason, but I cannot figure out exactly why. Two days in Saigon is enough this time. All I wanted to do was meet up with Nham who is travelling with me this trip and to ...
Chuc Mung Nam Moi
... length. The staff here were very friendly and helpful and directed us in the right directions for attractions etc. Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam, but not the capital, which is Hanoi in the North, but is probably the more happening or liberal ...
Painting Ho Chi Minh City Red with Mini V
... dates back to 1880, was the setting for Graham Greene's novel "The Quiet American" (www.continentalvietnam.com). Journalists covering Vietnam were known to wet their whistles at the Continental's bar. A vodka martini and a lemon juice were enjoyed by ...
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
... to do at the Thai/Cam boarder. It took a further 2 hours to get to Ho Chi Minh City, otherwise known as Saigon. From the moment we entered Vietnam it was easy to see the contrast between it and Cambodia. The fact that it had paved roads and modern retail ...
A Day Trip
... had read about several interesting sights outside of Saigon. One was the Cu Chi tunnels created by the Saigonese during the Vietnam War. And another was a church of Cao Dai, a fascinating religion with equally fascinating temples. But these places would ...
Saigon and the Mekong Delta
So much has happened since I last wrote that I don't quite know where to start! We reached Saigon, Vietnam on the 21st and stayed for two night with a friend of Claire's who was really generous and let us stay and took us out for the evening on him. This ...