Ho Chi Minh City Inns - Reviews and Rates

We arrived on Friday night around 11:30 and even though we had been traveling for 28 hours, we were still wide awake and hungry! On our biological clocks it was lunch time... So we found this Chinese style restaurant that is open until 3am and had a feast of beef with noodles, prawns in a lime broth, and steamed shrimp and scallop balls. It was ...

We woke up in Siem Reap, Cambodia, had breakfast and I bought my mandatory picture from the old market down the street. YES - they do have a flea market in Cambodia too! Immigration into Vietnam was easier this time despite the need for a visa extension. Posh and Becks picked us up at the airport at 3:30pm. What did we do first? You probably kno...

Decided to give the new shorts a maiden voyage today. Put them on, grabbed my wallet and threw it into my pocket, also putting my hand straight through the pocket, tearing it down the seam. They were great shorts while they lasted. Today we went to Ho Chi Minh City's War Remnants Museum, which as expected focuses on the Vietnamese conflict of th...

Woke up at 5am and started getting ready for the new day..all batteries were now charged are ready to get alot of use for our Mekong Delta tour. After breakfast we met up with our guide for the day about 8:20am. We hopped in the car and fought traffic for the next hour just to get out of the city. Once that chore was done we had about another ho...

Things we've learnt so far: * Em likes those "white ladies that talk in a high voice" that greet you when you get on your plane. She does a good impersonation too (even without the makeup). * Video on Demand is fantastic (portable DVD players) but they shouldn't put sad movieson there because although no other passengers can see or hear what you...

We arrived in Chi Minh City at around 7.30pm after a 12 hour bus journey and checked into a hotel right on the main street, name is escaped me, but wouldn't ness recommend anyway, the staff were rude. So next day 18/12/07 we visited the Cu Chi Tunnels it was really interesting, It's where the Vietnamese communist hid "during the war". We actuall...

My arrival to Vietnam was greeted by a friendly customs officer that looking at my passport, smiled. "Figo!" he said while indicating the passage to his country. Ho Chi Minh is decades away of Hanoi. It is even hard to think they belong to the same country. Instead of the chaotic, heavily Chinese influenced city I was expecting, I discovered a c...

The most favorite dish here is Beef noodle and the taste were superb.Road was tared and full of motobike.The sound of non-stop roaming and hons was a hectic.Yet Vietnamese spent a lot of time sipping the aroma coffee and spending time with their family in park.

I will miss: - getting around by motorbike - my students - my friends - smelling incense - street snacks - fresh juices from every fruit - super long drink menus - poncho-wearing drivers in the rain - unexpected sights... - dollar DVDs - lump, coolest lil neighbor - waking up to funeral music - funny xe om drivers - cyclos - roof terraces and ba...

Goooooood MOoorning Vietnam !!! Our time-keeper AT wake us up at 7am, Mr. Constan-Diin reported missing since 6am, he was running from street to street with his 2 Bazoookas (Nikon Digital SLR), chasing interesting objects, one of them being Vietnamese Damsels in Traditional Dress(chinese cheong sam with long pants) cycling to work. The restauran...