Ho Chi Minh City Travel Blogs - Page 10

i thought that my last city in vietnam is worth another try in term of touristy activities... so on friday afternoon i visited the war remnants museum and on saturday a half day trip to the cu chi tunnels. the war remnants museum was stunning and shocking... pictures of the war, war crimes an…

After breakfast our guide Mai met us and we boarded the bus and what took us hours (it did for we were stuck in a traffic jam for at least an hour) on the way out of Ho Chi Min centre and to Cu Chi a suburb, and the journey was made more interesting/unusual when Mai started signing and then was…

A week-long trip to Saigon and the surrounding regions. Best trip of my life!

The World Cruise: Hong Kong to Singapore

Pictures from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam!

We left Saigon feeling that it would be one place we'd love to come back to.  We feel that the country and its people will go very far and achieve tremendous things in the next few years. They have the nouse to know what their customers or visitors want eg. In a shop selling model boats (v…

Organized chaos they call it.  The streets of Saigon are full of it.  Thousands of people die each year in Motorbike accidents.  In fact only last week a motorbike, a bicycle, and a car collided killing 12 people.  I tried to avoid crossing the street while I was here.  I'm…

We woke up early to get packed and check out at 12, but we had booked a train for 11pm that evening and were not really relishing the prospect of wandering around Ho Chi Minh City for 11 hours as we felt like we’d seen what we wanted to already. So, we walked over to the park, spent a few hours t…

Me. My backpack. A 1 way ticket. 3.5 months. No real plan. Malaysia, Nepal, India, Tibet, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Burma. Amazing. (Dates are all messed up, I'll sort this out later - and some actual blogging will eventually appear!)

Sat in Sai Gon airport the day before Xmas eve with tinsel decorations hanging on the walls and I'm listening to the slowest version of The 12 Days of Xmas known to man.  I love Xmas like you wouldn't believe, from late night shopping to the cards from meeting up with friends and family to a d…

We spent about 10 days in Vietnam and could have easily spent twice as much time seeing more spots, but felt it was time to move on.  We visited six different cities here and feel that we saw a wide variety of the country.  Running into westerners were a far more regular occurrence here t…

Foto's van de Vietnam vacantie

KERRY - After our 5 days of peace on the island it was back to the hussle and bussle of the city! And boy is this city busy - there are even more motorbikes than in Hanoi! We only had a couple of days here, so spent the first day visiting the Reunification Palace and the Vietnam War Museum and then…

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Arriving in HCM by plane from Hue, the changes with the northern part of Vietnam are rapidly felt: climate (hot and humid), financial hub of Vietnam, "skyscrapers", etc... a more modern city. Hanoi vs HCM, it's like Beijing vs Shanghai. One is more political and culture-oriented, the other one is m…