Ho Chi Minh City Travel Blogs - Page 5

ok, just escape from work and having few words to my brand new travblog. As I promised to some guys of TB, I would have a post about my home city, HCMC. So I should not forget it and it’s just about time. But firstly, I think my traveling plan has a little change, cuz the plan to Cambodia would …

We started off in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the traffic was the craziest I've seen anywhere with motorbikes zig-zagging through the streets and a constant symphony of horns and bells being sounded....crossing the road was a challenge that we managed to master in the first day - the advic…

Saigon is an amazing place.  There is so much culture around.  From the food stands alongside the street to the cramped market and the mass amounts of motorcycles, I really like it here.  The people are so friendly and want to help you, which especially nice when I don't speak their …

Can I just start by saying Welcome to the world little baby Courtney, who was born over the weekend in Plymouth!   We are now in country no 6!!!! We are in 'Nam. We can now say "when I was in 'nam" oh yeah there is no stopping me now.   Now this place is mad. Well Ho Chi Minh City an…

Our flight back was uneventful apart from a bizarre little stop at a place called Rach Gia which had the bumpiest runway we've ever landed on. Getting into the city didn't seem quite so bad as it had last time, maybe because we knew what to expect or maybe it was knowing that we were only staying o…

Amazing trip

mosey-ing around vietnam for a few months figuring out what life has in store for me...

Our Plane (PAL) Arrived On Time. After disembarking we proceeded to the Immigration Counter (HCMC's Airport is very impressive, Very Clean and Modern, Better than NAIA 1 and 2 and 3). There were a lot of Immigration Counters, all were with long lines, but a Uniformed Man pointed us to Counter 34 wh…

While I was on my one-month vacation before I started on my new company, Matt (my flatmate) and I were so bored one day and we just decided to book flights going to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) and we tagged along my friend RH so it will be more fun fooling around a city we all haven’t been to and we don…

Went to see Cao Dai Holy See which I was really excited about because it's like so many religions mixed in one and they have saints like Victor Hugo and Joan of Arc and the temple's like in all the pictures of Vietnam and it was even better in real life. So bright and colourful and airy and the…

In the spirit of S-21 and The Killing Fields, SE Asia also offers another tourist attraction documenting man's inhumanity to man: The War Remnants Museum in Saigon City, Vietnam. Over 3 million Vietnamese died in the American War (known to us as the Vietnam War). Over two million of those we…

Excellent trip w/2 friends & vietnamese guides leading the way. We went trekking & mountainbiking outside of Dalat, and windsurfing in Mui Ne, as well as your basic sightseeing stuff in Saigon & the Mekong Delta.

Today we were on a pre-booked tour of Saigon, which Snurf kindly booked for us. Unfortunately I had to face him by myself as Burger was refusing to eat his breakfast, after throwing it up yesterday. I sensed there was more to it... We started off in the French Quarter, at the Reunification Palace,…

I didn't believe it when I first saw the address...this can't be right I said...or if it is...Vietnam probably the only place where they allows obscenity in official matters. The first day I arrived in HCMC, I booked a hotel called Golden Ant Antique. I saw the pictures of the hotel on the intern…

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, June 2007 -- A second visit to Vietnam, this time in the city formerly known as Saigon.