Saigon Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... dinner with my friends at a very random restaurant we found where the people didn't speak English and we didn't really know what we were ordering. I was a little nervous because the day before on our drive to Ha Long Bay a motorbike with a cage packed with kittens stacked on top of each other drove by and our tour guide said.. to eat to eat, while pointing to the cage. I proceeded to tell her to change my meal to vegetarian for the day. The waitress brought us Saigon beer and ...

... was a bit gruesome but a fascinating piece of history. <br><br>4. War Remnants Museum - by this point, we were a bit "museum-ed out" which, with hindsight, probably wasn't the best time to look at pictures of deformities caused by Agent Orange (the chemical used by the US during the war). It was a strange experience... Very saddening but also a little weird as there was a disclaimer at the end saying that there isn't any scientific evidence that the deformities shown in the ...

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... rooms with old school war communications equipment. There are many super nicely albeit 70's inspired, rooms on the upper floors. My favorite room was the card playing room with the bar since it was super 70's. There was a major monsoon that erupted while we were just arriving to this spot. We were held captive till the rains died down for hours and even then had to walk through the rain to get home. Pix and Vids of things we ...

... retrieving your passport, sit here, stand there, get back on the bus, get your luggage and get off the bus- all this would make anyones head spin! The last leg of the process, I'm sitting on the bus, thinking that I'm finished and finally on my way to Ho Chi Minh when a gentleman in a uniform comes up to me, hands me a pink piece of paper and tells me, "you come now... doctor check your hair." What??? Doctor ...

... a bus driver that only honks every five minutes or so. Yay! Was convinced I'm gonna love Cambodia as soon as we crossed the border - an immigration officer said "hello" to me, smiled and even said "thank you!" Manners, woo hoo! So far the landscape looks very much like Thailand - lots of banana trees, green, open fields, and beautiful wats (temples) with colorful tiles that reflect the sun's rays. We just had an interesting experience in which our ...

Ho Chi Minh City (die Vietnamesen sagen immer noch Saigon) ist eine Grossstadt ohne viel Charme. Es gibt wenig zu sehen und trotzdem Unmengen von Touristen. Und beim "Schlendern" durch die Stadt muss man immer ein grooosses Auge auf die 10 Millionen Toefflifahrer haben :-) Dafuer ist das Nachtleben hier umso interessanter...unzaehlige Bars zaeumen den Strassenrand und ueberall werben sie mit Happy Hour :-)<br><br>Zu unserem Pech ...

... are sweet. They still had Christmas decorations up. They also have wi-fi so I spent a lot of time there working on my blog. That evening as I sat there feeling a little alone a tiny orange marmalde cat jumped up on the chair across from me, curled up and went to sleep. (For anyone who doesn't know, we had an orange marmalde cat [appropriately named Marmalade] that passed away last summer). It was one of those great moments in life when you realize that you're never *really* alone.