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…
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Vietnam Trip: HCMC
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$149.80Visa = free Heard that now budget airlines are going to charge check-in baggages to…
Claustrophobic in the wartime Cu Chi Tunnels
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…
Cu Chi Tunnels Tour: Deadly Traps
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…
Mekong Delta Day Cruise
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…
Mekong Delta Tour
I had never hopped onto so many boats in a day before! We had a boat ride along the river. Our small “gondola” nearly capsized when my friend jumped into the boat out of panic that she might miss the boat. So, remember, don’t jump into the rocky boat. 😀 Also, remember to apply insect…
HCMC (Saigon) City Tour
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…
Ben Thanh Market
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…
Vietnamese Food
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…
2008 Sichuan Earthquake 四川大地震
Earthquake News Update on 2008-05-27 16:06:13 China earthquake death toll rises to 67,183… two fresh aftershocks struck earthquake-hit areas in southwest China on Tuesday afternoon. A 5.4-magnitude aftershock hit Qingchuan County in Sichuan Province at about 4:03 p.m. and another 5.7-magnitude aftershock hit neighboring Ningqiang County in Shaanxi Province, according to the China National Seismological…
