Hotels in Ho Chi Minh City - Prices and Reviews

Ok so the saying should go 'Good morning Vietnam' but ever since I got here all I seem to say is ‘No thank you’. You want a taxi? No thank you, You want to buy a bike? No thank you, You want to buy this? No thank you, You want food? No thank you! I honestly think they should make a t-shirt that says No thank you. Oh well this is Sout...

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Today, I'll update the story of Madame Thanh, our cleaning lady, who's been working for us since we've been in Viet Nam, more than 4 and one half years ago. One can understand that after all those years of "intimacy", this woman is now part of our life, and we are part of hers too. Last year, while vacationing in France (for...

15th Had a reasonable lie in this morning and had breakfast at about 10. At 12.00pm we left our hotel and the first stop was the market......well it was supposed to be the market. We had been warned by an amusing american chap that bringing a map out in public view was not a sensible idea if you wanted to avoid the swams of moto and cyclo driver...

Not a massive day, today. Ourselves and the Oz-mericans went for a combined shopping / sight-seeing walking tour around the city. I had read up on where the decent shops are on the net, as our guidebook is slightly out of date and we're getting a little tired of arriving outside a hotel or guesthouse that sounds great only to find it's closed do...

So goes the opening line of the famous Chisel song "Khe Sanh". I knew that Khe Sanh existed in Vietnam, but only because that as an Australian, it was a pre-requisite to know the song and its lyrics. What I didn't realise was that Khe Sanh played a major part in the American War in Vietnam a few decades ago, and that the lyrics of the song made ...

Saigon 8.00 A.M. 12 hrs ago the aircraft started in Frankfurt/Germany. Finally I'm here in Saigon, back in south east asia. Quickly through the customs and grap my bag at the baggage claim and the adventure can begin. My two friends came here a week ago and thus I knew how much these chisellers of taxi drivers demand in order to come into the ci...

As usual the bus was late, this time it was a mini-bus taking us to the main collection point.

Predictably we sat on the bus for ages waiting for everyone to be collected/show up, and this time we were particularly 'lucky' that some Raymondo forgot something from his hotel and had to go back for it, delaying us by a further 30 minutes......

I wrote this post while sitting @ Ho Chi Minh City brand flashy international airport... From Hoi An I went to Nha Trang which was awful, full of tourists and people trying to sell u stuff ... I really miss the REAL thing, like where people just laugh at you and I don't have to deal with the creepy feeling of someone trying to rip me off all the...

Rolling into Saigon was pretty fun. The city is nothing like what I had pictured. First off, it's huge. I had pictured it to be a good size, but not nearly as vertical as it is. The next thing took be by storm is just how cosmopoltian the city is. Every where you look there are high fashion boutiques, nice high rise hotels, fancy restaurants and...

Hi everybody, I am so sorry for such a long delay between postings--two weeks! It has been a less eventful period with fewer photo opportunities and rather more work from the home office on grant applications for the grassroots organizations and working on my final paper. It has been hectic and busy trying to get it all done. I am a bit depresse...