Legend Hotel Saigon

... ; Anyway, while wandering around trying to spread a bit of xmas cheer in my jolly red suit a couple of students from Saigon University approached and asked if we would come with them later that night to a concert they were putting on at a ...

... laquer art factory.  It was very interesting and we bought some of their stuff.  Tony took us to our hotel (Saigon legend Hotel) right on the river.  We walked around a bit and went to the Reunification Palace.  Perfectly preserved in ...

... still growing. During the course of the Vietnam war, as refugees spilled in from a devastated countryside, the population of Saigon almost doubled from 2.4m in 1965 to around 4.5m by 1975. With reunification in 1976, the new communist authorities pursued ...

... of the famous Punch and Judy with some dragons in a pool, Jen found it to be a very entertaining form of legend telling.   The accompanying music, features Cheo (a form of traditional opera originating in north vietnam) an unusual vietnamese one- ...

... east and Hoan Kiem Lake to the south. Meals included: 1 breakfast Day 16 / Halong Bay Ha Long means 'descending dragon' and legend has it that a giant dragon plunged into the ocean at this point cutting the bay from the rocks as it thrashed its way ...