Sai Gon

A first taste of Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City (Sai Gon) for a few days, including Tet and the buildup to Tet, two separate trips to Phu Quoc and a day in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta.

... around the city (since 1976 Ho Chi Minh City has been used to describe the whole sprawling metropolis, but District 1 is still called Sai Gon). First impression [in comedy Oriental accent]: "Where you go now?" which I think is the new national slogan. I ...

... be a long time until the Khmer people catch up with the rest of the region. From their it was in to Vietnam, first stop Sai Gon, a crazy town with more moto's than Cambodia and a culture that has continued to evolve over Milena, you can see the Thai, ...

... and teach them would not be tolerated in our society, especially when this stranger is a shaggy bearded one.  We eventually pulled into Sai Gon (TP Ho Chi Minh City is the official post-1975 name of the city, but no local calls it that) at some ...

... of Sihanoukville we headed for our next destination... Viet Nam. Our first stop would be Ho Chi Minh City formally known as Sai Gon (Saigon). We journeyed there with two other travellers we met in Sihanoukville as they were doing a similar trip as us. ...

Day 5: The Day of Banh Mi and Pho We woke up at 07.00, and planned not to go anywhere until we checked-out from hotel at 11.00. So we just relax. Oh yeah, we asked Ms. Vy to book us the taxi back to the airport, our flight was at 20.20. She arranged the ...

Last blog a bit wrong. We actually went to Mui Ne and then Nha Trang... Anyway... We got a short bus journey from Sai Gon to Mui Ne; a small beach side town thats just working its way into the guide books. Encompassed by the China Sea to the east ...

... .People are outside, so are brown cows and grey buffalos. Right  behind the row of houses is the  forest. There are also rice and vegetable fields, people working there. Trees: palms, banana, bg trees like mango. Bye Sai-gon Rivka ...

... a half an hour too late -- it's open from 7 am to 4 pm, so we'll have to try again tomorrow on our last day here in Sai Gon. We decided to walk to the Church of Notre Dame, a block away. The nuns there told us it was also closed! Apparently Saturday is ...

It was very hot in the first day but it wa great. I spent night time on along Sai Gon river, Dis 3 and had some beer with friends. It was so interesting in Mekong tour ( My Tho, Ben Tre, Can Tho, Hau Giang, Chau ...

Visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels provides a better understanding of the prolonged resistance war of the Vietnamese people and also of the persistent and clever character of the Vietnamese nation. Cu Chi District is known nationwide as the base where the ...

Vi startede Ho Chi Minh City eller Saigon, som den oprindelig ...

When I wrote before about seeing the Cu Chi tunnels I had forgotten to mention this little anecdote about our oh-so-wonderful guide: when we were leaving the gun range and heading for a tunnel to walk/crawl/crouch through, he showed us to the opening and ...

Statt in anderthalb Tagen den touristischen Highlights in Ho Chi Minh Stadt hinterher zu jagen, sind wir durch die Stadt spaziert und haben die Atmosphaere des wirtschaftlichen Zentrums Vietnams auf uns wirken lassen. Verglichen mit ...

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