This time we chose to spend the rest of the holiday at Ho Chi Ming City also known as Saigon.
It was my first experience to go to a place where the traffic is worst than Jakarta!
Lots of motorbikes - so there were many fancy Vespa and Piagio.
There were more 'Chinese' faces - fair skin and slim!
We stayed at Park Hyatt Saigon - probably the best in town, thanks to Matt's corporate rate... hi hi
It is located in the central HCMC, very accessible to many attractions in the city
I fell sick on the 2nd day (worst hangover + my monthly curse) So unfortunately we had to skip the Mekong river tour and the cave tour... a good excuse to go back again!
And though we stayed only in the city, we loved it and will gladly move here if we have to!
People were generally friendly - some guy helped us cross the road or some men pointed at the directions from far - of course, we probably looked like helpless tourists.
But also it is an exciting city... Communist country? hm...nothing I imagined.
We experienced gun shooting scene at a bar where we had a beer, on the first day.
Or a 3years old street girl smoking....
Anyway, please check out http://hochimingcity-nov2007.blogspot.com/ for more photos!
3 comments:
The Gun Man is a must see.
He may be part of the Visit Vietnam promotion?
Mom
Yes, that's what some people thought.
And what kind of messege would he be promoting?
Besides, there were only 3 couples of tourists there and I can say, he was pretty serious.
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