Orchid International Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... then went into the basement through the bomb shelter, which housed all the communication equipment. I am sure it was state of the art equipment during the days of the war but sure looks old now. We are confident that a whole room full of electronic stuff could be replaced by a lap-top computer in today’s world.

Some of the cultural information that our guide Thien (his name has a ‘roof’ over and a dot under the E) Each Vietnamese word ...

... 000D. It would be nice if it was a little more expensive and they had more money for the welfare of the animals, some of the
conditions were not great. We were both very impressed with the animals the zoo has to offer and ended up spending the whole day there. Animals ranged from snakes, giraffe, elephants, deer,
crocodile, tigers, monkeys and many more. There was several pythons, one which was probably about 10ft long who was asleep in the ...

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We docked about 2 hours away from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) but did not go into town. The ship was too big to dock at the city itself. We figured we would go into town on our follow-on cruise. We did have a relaxing day after our visit to Nah Trang. Also, we were told, that the Captain has decided to bypass our next port of call, Sanya, China, because of yet another typhoon. We will have two days at sea instead of one.

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We arrived in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City) late on a rainy Friday night so our first impression wasn't that great... However, we very quickly found that there was tonnes to do in Saigon and that the people here are really nice!

We did the walking tour, as detailed in the Lonely Planet but managed to spread it over four days (the book says it takes six hours!). The highlights included:

1. Ben Thanh Market - this market was brilliant! We ended up going every day ...

... as you continue chatting or panicking quietly inside when you see you still have another 3 lanes to go or a big bus is coming for you. It’s quite an experience.
We had a quiet one the following day - just wandered around the city for the day seeing sights and getting to know the city a little better. We decided on booking a flight half way up the county the following day to get out of the rain and to save on time and 2 long painful overnight buses which we ...

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... seen. Bangkok was crazy, but this is another level of crazy. They have a population of about 10 million and there are 6 million bikes in the City. The best site was a newborn baby on the back of the bike asleep in Mums arms with Dad and the toddler up front. And no, the kids weren't wearing helmets. Everything is optional here - seatbelts, using your own lane, using the footpath, how many boxes you can stack high on the back of your bike... Motorbikes, pushbikes, scooters ...

... Americans left behind, fighter planes, tanks, a bomb etc etc...inside you have pictures and memorabilia from their wars. There's the famous "Tiger Cages" which is a small barbed wire cage that looks like it can barely fit one human being let alone the 2 or 3 they'd cram in there for years. There's a big hatchet thing that was used to behead people. I went with the couple and the guy started playing with it.
I'm like a mom when I say "No, no don't play with ...