Xuan Spring Hotel
Travel Blogs from Ho Chi Minh City
Make Believe
... fairy, turns himself into a dashing young man, marries, her and she lays a hundred eggs that hatch into human babies. The fairy misses her homeland and decides to give half her kids to her husband, and half to her. The kids with the husband become the people of Vietnam. This story suggests that the descendants of the Vietnamese today, were born from a fairy, but had no traces of fairy genes. Although points in the story do not specify where the son ...
Good Morning Vietnam
... hit us - hard. We had a fair way to walk to the hotel (PP Backpackers) and arrived dishevelled and tired. One cold shower later we booked our onward travel to Phu Quoc and eyed up the enarest bar, Cheeky Monkey!
Owen desperately needed a haircut and had not been brave enough in India, so we found the local barbers and he sat down for his treatment. He also got a massage thrown in and we were both wondering what the chap was going to do when he picked up this ...
Ho-Chi-Minh-City
... vorgewarnt, dass das Kriegsmuseum ziemlich schockierend ist... das war es wirklich. Fotografieren ist mir vergangen... hab nur eins vom Gebauede gemacht.
Man sieht hier viele Menschen mit Behinderungen...Auswirkungen vom Krieg.... Ist schrecklich anzusehen.
Morgen machen wir noch eine Mekongdelta-Tour, bevor wir uns dann trennen. Julia und Alex fliegen nach Thailand und bei mir gehts weiter nach ...
Ups and Downs
... directions which I had figured out pretty quickly), I was in a pretty foul mood. Luckily I ended up near a school that had just been let out and an adorable little girl was walking near me and said hello so I started chatting with her in the little English that she had. She was 9 and I think her name was Ngoc. We walked alongside for a little while and then her and her brother turned down another street so I waved good bye. Although after a few seconds I realized that ...
Saigon, Vietnam - Motorbikes, Pho and Conical Hats
1) About
Saigon, renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the North conquered the South, was the former colonial capital for the French, and later the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). The name Saigon is still in common use although the city no longer serves as the capital of Vietnam.
Home to 9m people, its a vibrant, sometimes chaotic place....great for food, drinking, shopping and some sightseeing. Here you can really see how quickly Vietnam is changing as ...