Hotel 211 Ho Chi Minh City
211 Pham Ngu Lao St., Dist. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh City, Sigon, it's all the same thing
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Ho Chi Minh is a bit of a mental city. We arrived at 6am on 28th May and the only thing we wanted to do after yet another 12hours on a sleeper bus was get into a proper bed. After a bit of bartering and nearly getting thrown out of the hotel we agreed a price (and got breakfast thrown in seen as there was no …
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Mekong Delta day
... too sure what thet are...we ask Hung our guide.
It seems that they are Tombs.
The city people have to have funerals but the farmers can do what they want and so they just bury their people on the land.
They are scattered all over the place and looks quite odd....but wow, saves expense hey :)
We make the usual tourist trap stop supposedly for the loo and this we make use of, as well as to buy drinks.
We get to the Mekong and there are some more ...
Good Morning Vietnam?
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Route: All that I know is it goes to Ben Thanh Market and the stop after that is Pham Ngu Lao, the backpackers district. The ride to Ben Thanh Market is between 30 to 45 min . The driver will stop for a bit when the bus gets to Ben Thanh Market and ask if anyone is getting off here or continuing on to PNL.
Airport Cafe
Try to pay in Vietnamese Dong. The staff will round the figure up to the nearest dollar when paying in USD.
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Saigon-HCMC
... frenetic, it's very easy to sit down at a street stall with a hot meal and cold beer and just watch it all in action. Central Saigon is also home to a huge covered market by the name of Ben Than, and inside you can find everything from top-notch Vietnamese coffee to the latest designer knock-offs. We only went through the interior once or twice, but we spent plenty of time exploring the stalls that would set up outside it's confines once the ...
You can always depend on the kindness of strangers
... utterly these rights had been violated during the war. There is no denying that the Museum was presented in an incredibly biased way for the most part, but the statistics were pretty damning against the US to be honest. I could understand the bitterness towards them sadly.
3 million Vietnamese were killed during the war (and among these were 2 million civillians). This is not even taking into account the number of Cambodians killed as America tried ...


