http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Vietnam , Southeast , Ho Chi Minh City en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 20:35:02 +0000 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:35:02 +0000 Hi dudes Vietnam reis zit erop Nog een laatste post over Saigon of Ho chi Minh as you want.De reis van de Mekong delta tot in ho Chi Minh was best grappig. Het was deze keer met een mini buske vol locals. De rit duurde zo39n 3 uur viel goed mee en was een ideaal moment voor de Vietnamese kerel links van mij en oudere vrouw rechts van Anouk om wat bij te slapen. Bij elke hobbel zakten hu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-787400.html Feb 17 2013Dont want to go back to work and coldness Today is the last day of my holiday and I couldnt have had more fun Well thats not true because if I had the money I would have been able to indulge myself more. BUT with what I had things turned out well. And for all this hard work Im indulging myself today. Saigon takes credit card I had an amzing breakfast with Inida http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-786965.html Up bright and early this morning for our bus to Ho Chi Minh City. As per usual we should have know really as everything runs on asian time here... late it didn39t arrive on time only a mere 2 hours late and we were off. It was another sleeper bus so basically we got to lounge around in beds all day whilst we were whisked miles away to the south. After battling through the rush hour traff http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-786742.html Today was one of the rougher days honestly. Very emotional. I woke up with last nights39 impression of Vietnam big bright city cleaner than Chiang Mai friendly people... then learned better today. I guess that is part of the experience seeing the lights and darks highs and lows of a city. We ate a fancy breakfast at our fancy hotel and then caught a taxi. We really wanted to learn m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/Cu-Chi/blog-785393.html An early start this morning. I was up and downstairs for breakfast god all those stairs are a killer. I think we were picked up. The Polish lass that was staying at the hostel was also going on the trip. I39m sure the pcik up involved us being lead to the main street and onto the bus. I think it was a minibus. Then we spent a while driving around different parts of the city to pick up more peo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/Cu-Chi/blog-785384.html Today felt like two days in one. The first part was two short flights that felt like eternities for some reason We flew from Chiang Mai to Bangkok then from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. Some of the information on Stacy39s entrance visa was incorrect so it took a wild goose chase to track down a computer to print a new one. We ran all over that blasted airport then finally got some fo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-785261.html I find it hard to describe Ho Chi Minh City for several reasons but primarily because i ended up staying there for 3 times around 10 days in total and each time the city changed. The first time I was there I went there with Bo. And compared to Pattaya from where we just came there was a lot of nioce from all of the motorbikes and there were a lot of people everywhere. Besides this we didn http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-785028.html lttable width665 border0 cellspacing0 cellpadding0gtlttbodygtlttrgtlttd alignleft valigntopgtNow is the time to explore two beautiful countries for playing golf. Play golf at the top golf courses in Vietnam and Cambodia and in between rounds explore the rich cultures of these two golfing countries. Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnam39s largest metropolis and its undis http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-784801.html 10 day golf tour introduces the finest golf courses in 3 different parts of the country. Playing in Vietnam Golf Country Club and Song Be Golf Resort in Saigon and then the best design course of Montgomerie Links...Day 1 Arrive in Saigon Arrive Saigon City. Pick up and private car transfer to luxury 5 star Sheraton Saigon Hotel Towers. Relax and enjoy the rest of time. On in Saigon city. Da http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-784798.html Enjoyable South Vietnam 6 daysDay 1 Ho Chi Minh City Arrival DUpon arrival at Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City you will be welcomed by guide and transferred to your hotel in the city center. Check in your hotel for refreshment after a longhaul flight. Welcomed dinner will be arranged on a cruise along Saigon River with live music and Vietnamese buffet menu. Overnight in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-784547.html Explore The Highlights of Vietnam 10 daysDay 1 Ho Chi Minh City Arrival DUpon arrival at Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City you will be welcomed by guide and transferred to your hotel in the city center. Check in your hotel for refreshing after a longhaul flight. ltstrong stylefontfamily arial helvetica sansserif fontsize small lineheight 14ptgtWelcomed http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-784540.html Ones destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things air sleep dreams the sea the sky all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-783911.html ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgt29.4.Mme tady u tet tden mho putovn i kdy prvn tden jsme vyrazili a ve tvrtek. Rno chceme vyrazit dve na popud Petra avak nakonec on je ten kter sp nejdle Chtli jsme se trochu prospat ale zaznla falen informace e nkter pamtky jsou oteven jen dopoledne. U od rna zan bt http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-783407.html Our two night stay at the four star Grand Silverland hotel cost more than all our other hotels in Vietnam put together but after all that travelling interspersed by illness and mountain bike crashes I think we were due a treat. And still the nightly rate worked out not much more than something like one of those hotels that Lenny Henry does those awful adverts for. We were supremely well looked http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-783091.html memory zoneusb 3.0 the nho cf the nho sd sd wificf sandisk extreme cf sandisk extreme pro the nho microsd http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-782775.html After Cambodia I moved onto Vietnam. After a relatively short bus ride of about 6 hours from Phnom Penh I arrived in Ho Chin Minh city. My first impressions were that it was a pleasant city to walk around. The town center has French influences all over it. There are impressive old French palaces and most government buildings have retained their colonial image.One absolute must if youre ever http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/Cu-Chi/blog-782278.html Day 10 Today we caught the flight from Danang to Ho Chi Minh City. It was an afternoon flight so unfortunately we didn39t arrive until later afternoon. Just time for a quick dip in the small rooftop pool before dinner and then a tour of some of the rooftop bars of Saigon. Our hotel was in an excellent location right in the heart of District One so in striking distance of Sheraton Caravelle a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-781890.html 7 April 2013Ho Chi Minh CityArriving at Saigon station is a little like arriving at any small town station in Vietnam chaotic and unorganised and you still have to clamber over the tracks. But Saigon is by no means a small or primitive town. With a population of 10 million plus and growing by the second we have made bets as to how much this city is going to change in the next 10 to 20 years. I b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-781650.html Have been feeling on the edge of ill for days. Stay in bed a while today i think. Dreamt two full songs this morning. Haven39t dreamt up songs for a long time. Not that I can write the notes or really remember the lyrics... got to be a way to recall dreams clearer.Got up and active eventually. Hired a motorbike taxi n realised that the agreed upon price of two which I thought was 20 and I d http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-781388.html The VC were a very impressive force. To defeat an army that on paper should39ve steamrolled them in a matter of weeks is insane. We saw tunnels heavily modified for western fatties like ourselves and traps and guns and chaps allowing the firing of said guns again very modified firing on rails and supports but it was worth firing the three whole bullets I fired. I must39ve shot about http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-781385.html