Leaving thailand for Vietnam was hard. I was with some great guys coming to the end of their travels and leaving the islands for a mad city was a wake up call. The city itself is very busy and their are thousands of motorbikes making crossing the hard a complete nightmare.
Although it was busy I preferred it too Bangkok as the bars were more chilled out with most of them sprawling out onto the pavement with tables and chairs were I sat and drank beers for around 40p brilliant.
The weather and humidity made walking around hard work but navigating around the city was easy enough with most of the sights being around the same area.
Daytime.
The first day was spent seeing the main sights of Saigon these imcluded the War Remnants Museum, Notre Damm Cathederal, Opera House and Central Post Office. The war museum was very thought provoking and the most interesting and hard hitting part was the exhibition on the use of agent orange the American War (as they call ii in Vietnam). The next day I took an organised trip booked through the hostel to the Cu Chi tunnels.... as used during the war by the Vietconh. I managed to do a 20m stretch of the said tunnels and fire an M16 rifle which was pretty strange feeling. We also visited a Cao Dai temple (a newly formed "fusion" religion worth googling). TBH it was nothing special and I am a bit templed out after Thailand.
Evenings
Were spent around the backpacker area near to my hostel where I shared a few drinks with room mates Ruud and Josh. My last night was spent on the 27th floor of a hotel (Chill Bar) looking out over Saigon making my gin and tonic last as long as possible as it was very expensive.
All in all a few very good few days with some good sights and nights out.
Pics FYI
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