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Below are some travel tips and advices given by the locals and experiences gained during my trip in Ho Chi Minh City or HCMC (abbrev.), aka Saigon, in Vietnam. As I did not travel much around HCMC, please feel free to contribute your tips in the comment box here, so that I can add on [...]

Budget trip to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam! Me and my gal friend bought cheap tickets from Tiger Airways. 1-way ticket = S$9.90 -> return ticket = S$19.80. Airport taxes & surcharges = S$130. Total cost of the return ticket = S$149.80 Visa = free Heard that now budget airlines are going to charge [...]

Someone who has been studying Vietnam and the Vietnam War since he was a kid shared this to me at Yahoo… “What many don’t realize about Cu Chi is it’s a mass grave for the Viet Cong and the Viets who supported the NLF. If you look around Cu Chi, you will see bomb craters [...]

During the US-Vietnam war, many human traps were created to fight the American army. All were deadly with many sharp pointed rods. It was really disgusting to see these traps built to kill. Our Cu Chi guide was a Vietnamese officer in the US army. When the US army retreated from Vietnam, he insisted to [...]

We embarked on a full-day Mekong Delta trip from 8 a.m to 7 p.m. The tour actually ended at 3p.m but it took us three to four hours of journey back to our hotel. This one day Mekong Delta trip from My Tho to Ben Tre, including a lunch, cost USD 17 per person. We [...]