Hyatt Saigon

... into our Christmas present. Yep Jim and I had decided we couldn't rough it any longer so we'd booked into the Park Hyatt Hotel in Saigon for two nights. Eager to make the most of our time there (and also because the train deposited us at some ungodly hour ...

Arrive in Saigon for our first taste of Vietnam. Staying at the Park Hyatt, which turns out to be a wonderfully peaceful oasis from the hurly-burly streets with no streetlights and hundreds of mopeds careening about. Aside from the sights of the city, ...

... a large passenger van. As the engine rumbled and the horn blared, we weaved our way through the narrow streets of Saigon, a whale in a stream full of tadpoles. Crossing the Mekong river, urbanity quickly disappeared and was replaced by wide roads lined ...

We visited Cu Chi Tunnels, Post Office, and just wandered around the town.

... pro-communist sentiments glide coolly past one another on the backs of motorbike in the streets of Hanoi and Saigon.  Stumbling through the streets with little real direction we were approached (as is the case with travelers in ...