City Star Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

Boy this was an exciting day. We learned how to stay alive getting across the road. What a rush. I'm going to get Roz to take a video of me crossing a road in the next few days, because you just won't get it until you see it in real life. We saw the ...

... traps employed by the Viet Cong. Billy took delight in prodding them with a stick to demonstrate how they were triggered; they were mostly variations on concealed boards that when stood upon would spin round and stick sharp bamboo spikes into the victim. Nasty. Afterwards there was some more touristy ****: a firing range has been set up where you can buy bullets for a variety of weaponry like M-16s and AK-47s and shoot at targets. It was overpriced, and I hadn't brought enough ...

... drives with his right hand and tries to steady the load with his left.

Another drives three large boxes of electric equipment, another still is transporting a crate full of chickens. The only thing missing from this traffic is livestock walking through the streets. Here, only human and vehicular traffic makes it's way through the city.

As I explore the city streets, the Ben Thanh market and the popular Biu Vien area, I like the lively feel of this ...

... thu thật ý nghĩa, công ty Chudu24 cùng các thành viên tổ chức đêm hội :

"Trung Thu - Ấm áp một tấm lòng" cho các em tại mái ấm Tre Xanh

Đ ...

25th of september..

The one were crossing a street becomes a sport......Ho Chi Min City--Style.!!

Another bus, another border to go to. Picked up on time again from our hostel and droped of at the busstation. It would take us an 5-hor drive from Phnom Pheng to Ho Chi Min City.
Or better known as Saigon. It took us indeed 5 hours. Good seats,good bus, some oldie Vietnamese who maybe did some shopping in Phnom and some old farthing Vietnamese Sisters who were chatting ...

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9. Biển Quất ...

... by the Americans to help but only as America acting out in an unnecessary manor. The main focus was on the affects Agent Orange and the horrific ramifications still felt by victims today. It was a sober beginning but educational to view the war from a different prospective.

Next we wanted to go to the Royal Palace but it was closed for a 2 hr lunch break. So instead we went to a well known market that was supposed to be interesting ...

... u, dat phong Vung Tau, đặt phòng Hội An, dat phong Hoi An, đặt phòng Huế, dat phong Hue, đặt phòng Hà Nội, dat phong Ha Noi, khách sạn Phan Thiết, khach san Phan Thiet, đặt phòng Phan Thiế ...

... simple and old fashioned, especially compared to the US militaries equipment, but worked, they eventually won the war. The traps were various concoctions of (very sharp) spikes and holes in the ground, not all designed to kill, some just to seriously maim and injure!!!

It was a difficult place in some ways, but really fascinating and a good way to try and understand a bit more of what they went through.

So... Saigon, (which is what all the locals still call it save the Government officials) is a busy ... and very hot city. Our little guest house was down a narrow alley... walking down it you have to navigate through ladies squatting on the ground hawking Vietnamese delicacies, children running between the shop houses, little dogs... and scooters pushing through the crowd. Though a fairly industrial city Saigon still has great character. Many colorful ...