Tan My Dinh 2 Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

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... red light. One thing<br>I don't appreciate is that to avoid the traffic jams motorbikes use<br>the sidewalks. I mean jeez &#8211; it would be nice to not have to be<br>worried about being mowed down at least on the sidewalk! <br><br><br><br>There are signs of economic growth everywhere: scaffolding, mile-high<br>cranes, skyscrapers, men in suits, women in heels talking on cell<br>phones, and we even walked around a sparkling multi-storied mall ...

... used, including AA Guns, tanks, fighter jets and helicopters. Also outside is a facility showing the conditions that were suffered by Vietnamese prisoners at the hand of the South Vietnamese government (or as they call it, the American puppet regime) - It's pretty horrible and shows in detail the tortures used and the infamous tiger cages. These are cages made of barbed wire that were left out in the sun with maybe space enough for one person ...

... climb down the tunnels which had 3 storeys until some died, now tourists are only allowed in the first level. Everyone who came out of the tunnel looked scared to death so I am glad I didn't go in, one wrong turn and you may end up in a tunnel with booby traps! Later I did climb through a tunnel 120m long which had (apparently) been widened for tourists and did have some lighting but Mei and I had a torch which I was glad of. It was still so small I had to crawl and very hot ...

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... choice, we took these taxis into the centre of Quy Nhon. Once in Quy Nhon everything was shut up, every hotel and restaurant all closed for the evening, and we resorted to waking up the receptionists of the hotels in an attempt to get a room........10 hotels later, it turned out almost every room in Quy Nhon had been taken - a disaster - and we now faced having to wait out the rest of the night on a park bench!!!! At 3am and a stroke of luck later, the guard of a 4 ...

... not what you wanted because the driver gets a commission at certain places and not others. so, we got back on the right path and did eventually get to our hotel after paying too much (still cheap in Us dollars though). we decided to venture out to get a drink and found a street with some life at 1am. there were a few bars with tables and chairs on the street. One place had a sign warning people ...

... nearly seen all of the main sites in Saigon in the last couple of days, on Wednesday we (I) fancied something a little different; a day splashing around in a waterpark. We have threatened to visit several along the way in Vietnam but never got round to doing it, and Dam Sen Waterpark (link) is one of the best in Vietnam. Slides, rapids, wave pools, waterfalls, what more could a couple of waterbabies ask for. The park itself is a good 6 kilometres away from district 1, so a ...

... a bit of a rip-off, but hopefully it's a good trip. <br><br>I'll give you the details in my next post, but apparently our trip is 'off the beaten track' compared to the usual tour groups, with a smaller group, friendlier guides, a bit of biking, staying with a local family, a few meals included etc. We'll soon find out, so fingers crossed! <br><br>After booking that tour we grabbed a few beers in a nice bar around the corner, and then had ...