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VIETNAM | Mon, 12 Oct 2009 | By alistair | Views [47]
Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon as it is still referred to locally is a sprawling city of some 8 million people (and apparently 6 million motorcycles). It’s hard to say where the city starts or ends as the roads in this part of the world are inevitably lined ... Read more >
Tags: ho chi minh city, saigon
VIETNAM | Wed, 12 Aug 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [419] | Comments [1]
From Phnom Penh we caught a direct bus all the way into Vietnam. After our Laos/Cambodia border experience we thought that this would make for a smoother ride. The journey
was nothing special, but Jo was pleased that we arrived ... Read more >
Tags: ho chi minh city, saigon, cu chi tunnels, cao dai, nha trang, quy nhon
VIETNAM | Fri, 3 Apr 2009 | By willpeach | Views [199] | Comments [2]
Vietnam is readjusting to an influx of foreigners. In 2007 the country saw 3.6 million overseas visitors enter the country, a 3.7% increase on the previous year. And with scores of English teachers and businessmen relocating here every year, these ... Read more >
Tags: nigerians, vietnam, ho chi minh city, saigon, immigration, visa
VIETNAM | Sun, 14 Dec 2008 | By martin | Views [218] | Comments [2]
Xinh Tao! Gestern abend bin ich in Saigon angekommen. Direkt am Flughafen hat mich ein junger Vietnamese abgeholt und zum Hotel gefahren. Der erste Eindruck der einen hier ueberfaellt ist der Verkehr. Unendliche Massen an Mopedfahrern, die sich ohne ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, moped
VIETNAM | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 | By willpeach | Views [158] | Comments [1]
Yes, I think they do. But do you know it’s also Christmas
time here in South East Asia, a largely non-Christian region? It’s bloody hot,
sweaty and sunny. No snow falls here, and the only Father Christmas I have seen
is very thin and ... Read more >
Tags: christmas, saigon, vietnam, santa
VIETNAM | Tue, 9 Dec 2008 | By willpeach | Views [166] | Comments [1]
There is a trend in Vietnam. Largely followed to a tee by
the nation’s hordes of young bike owning women. The trend in question? Covering
up.
Vietnamese girls seem to go to extreme lengths to escape Mr
Evil UV Ray. Hats, scarves, gloves ... Read more >
Tags: patriarchy, white, caucasian, gender, roles, vietnam, saigon
VIETNAM | Sun, 7 Dec 2008 | By willpeach | Views [216] | Comments [1]
Take the test now! 1. You
want to hire a motorbike. You look around and scout out your options. Do you…
a) Rent
a lowly old manual from your local bia hoi?
b) Rent
a more upscale tidy automatic ... Read more >
Tags: vietnam, xe-om, motorbike, honda, saigon
VIETNAM | Sat, 6 Dec 2008 | By willpeach | Views [123]
Don’t petrol bomb us. We’ve moved and doesn’t out guesthouse
hate it? Every bloody day I get a call telling me I have outstanding payments. What
cheek! They raised my rent each week without telling me. Some Vietnamese are
slimy bastards I’ll ... Read more >
Tags: vietnam, saigon, house, apartment
VIETNAM | Fri, 5 Dec 2008 | By willpeach | Views [137]
Everywhere I go in Vietnam there is usually some person doing some strange gyrating. A quick swivel of the hips, a stolen moment lunging, some prostrating at irregular angles, it all happens sporadically and potentially anywhere. Spend a moment walking ... Read more >
Tags: aerobics, vietnam, saigon, pool, fitness
VIETNAM | Mon, 1 Dec 2008 | By willpeach | Views [170]
I’m a little xe-om driver short and stout, I drive on two
wheels, with my jacket inside out… My name is Phuc, which is hilarious to most
of my customers. I come from a long line
of motorbike taxi drivers, my uncle drove the first Honda to ever ... Read more >
Tags: xe-om, saigon, vietnam, driving, motorbike
VIETNAM | Sun, 30 Nov 2008 | By pshah13 | Views [129]
Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) is a big city with lots of history. We visited the Cu Chi tunnels where the Khmer Rouge lived and hid from the Americans by digging tunnels no wider than the length of your feet!!! It is also on the huge Mekong river and close ... Read more >
Tags: vietnam, ho chi minh, saigon
VIETNAM | Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [133]
You hear about gangsta rappers banging on about “life on the
streets”. It’s the same ones who cruise around in their flashy cars, eat at
gourmet restaurants and incessantly upgrade their latest home entertainment
systems. Well, in Vietnam ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, streets, xe-om, bia hoi, noise, vietnam
VIETNAM | Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [159] | Comments [1]
Writing postcards is bloody difficult. “Hmm, let’s see, must
write six weeks of experience in six sentences”. Will the erstwhile recipient
even care?
In Saigon posting them is like a top secret government
mission. First you have to haggle ... Read more >
Tags: postcards, ho chi minh post office, saigon, vietnam, stamps
VIETNAM | Tue, 4 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [112]
Saigon is both ghastly and a wonderment. Motor horns pepper
all hours of the day, fruit markets remain endless and its residents never tire
of staring at that new foreign face. Life in a Goldfish bowl. One can, however,
forgive its ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, district 1, district 7, vietnam
VIETNAM | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [117]
day 4- last day with the easy riders we were orginally suppose to finish in muine, but chan convinced us to stay in dalat and they would bring us around to the different attractions there. and we were to get the bus the next morning to saigon. oh my ... Read more >
Tags: easy riders, dalat, saigon
VIETNAM | Tue, 7 Oct 2008 | By katandstevie | Views [128]
We arrived in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City at around 6am, it appears people aren't quite as early to start in this city as a few hotels we had researched were still closed! We decided to check out a small guesthouse which a guy in Nha Trang had recommended ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, ho chi minh city, cu chi tunnels, cau dai temple, war remnants museum
CAMBODIA | Mon, 4 Aug 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [156]
I'm a little disappointed in myself for the way I treated Cambodia. It was slightly frightening. I was offered drugs more times than I can count. "Excuse me? Want to smoke? Opium?" But it was also beautiful. In a very sad way. I don't ... Read more >
Tags: cambodia, opium, saigon
VIETNAM | Wed, 2 Jul 2008 | By jfernandes | Views [282]
My previous two attempts to update my journal have been scuppered by power outages. As a result I am nearly a month behind!!! Ahhhhh... So here's a summary of my time in Southern Vietnam... I made it across the border on the second attempt, this ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, ho chi minh, shooting range, nha trang, mui ne
VIETNAM | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 | By simon_monk | Views [428] | Comments [1]
Why do travellers (tourists?) go on those mini-bus tours everywhere? The only people you'll meet are other travellers or tourists. I know it makes it all so easy but surely far less of an experience? It never ceases to amaze me how far off the beaten ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, mekong delta, ben tre, off the beaten track, travel with children
VIETNAM | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 | By simon_monk | Views [417]
We dozed in the back of the shagged out 1940's bus for sleep definitely wasn't possible. Rumble, bump, rattle, and thump, all night long. As the first rays of dawn glimmered outside, I mentally forced myself out of the slumber, as stretching definitely ... Read more >
Tags: saigon, ho chi minh, memories, beggars, traffic, travel with children
VIETNAM | Tue, 1 Apr 2008 | By simon_monk | Views [467] | Comments [1]
This argument seems to have been around certainly for as long as I have been travelling, with people who define themselves as 'travellers' usually feeling they are somehow superior to 'tourists'. I know Tony Wheeler from Lonely Planet for one doesn't ... Read more >
Tags: tourist, traveller, saigon, memory, dmz, mekong
VIETNAM | Sun, 23 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [8]
We booked a day trip out of Ho Chi Minh City today, to go to the Cao
Dai Temple and the Cu Chi Tunnels. It cost us only 6 US dollars each. We
set off at 8 a.m. A bus picked us up at our guesthouse after breakfast,
which was provided free at ... Read more >
Tags: vietnam, ho chi minh city, saigon, cao dai, cu chi
VIETNAM | Sat, 22 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [8]
We
landed in Ho Chi Minh City at 8 a.m. Vietnam time. The airport was grey
and spartan, a cold welcome to a Communist country. But Ho Chi Minh's
weather was not cold at all, in spite of our expectations. It was very
warm, just ... Read more >
Tags: vietnam, saigon, ho chi minh city
