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Category : Ho Chi Minh City
May 28, 2008

HCMC (Saigon) Travel Tips!

Good Stuff / Ho Chi Minh City / Travel Tips! / Vietnam

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 [...]

May 25, 2008

Vietnam Trip!

Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam

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 [...]

May 22, 2008

HCMC (Saigon) City Tour

Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam

Can you spot three dogs here? Hope they are not for the dining table… The traffic condition in Ho Chih Min is an eye opener for tourists; motorists come from all directions! We made our own city tour around Ho Chi Minh City. This is the Central Post Office, which is just opposite Notre Dame [...]

May 22, 2008

Going Ben Thanh Market

Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam

Ben Thanh Market is located near our Blue River Hotel at the backpackers’ area. We walked for about twenty minutes along the dusty road under the hot sun, and thinking of why we walked there instead of taking a taxi which cost only around USD 1. The only reason I could think of was generating [...]

May 21, 2008

Vietnamese Food!

Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam

A Taiwanese food variety show recommended this Quan An Ngon restaurant, which is located somewhere in between Nguyen Du St and Han Thuyen St. The nearby attractions are Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral and Central Post Office, and we walked there after the meal in this restaurant. So is the food nice here? I can’t [...]