Aftertaste weekend tour of Saigon

To HCM degree a weekend, Viet Nam time 5: 10 PM aircraft landing, airport old old, estimate for decades now.

Because it is going to HCM wanderaround, before departure and no set HOTEL, in the airport exit there is a TOURIST SERVICE CENTRE has two Viet Nam Belle, a map so she helped me find DISTRIC 1 (downtown) HOTEL, gave me a big book, because I wanna see the Mekong River at night, they selected the scene of a Renaissance Riverside hotel, I would pay for a night of $ 125, get a ticket to go straight to the HOTEL by taxi, the taxi airport help we call, $ 5. on the road, I saw that if flow, racing scene like a few years ago the national bike stream .. May be other people's rush hour ... At the HOTEL-Hotel service very good, very warm. live Riverview Room 9 floor, window on the opposite side of the Mekong (locally called SAIGON RIVER) 2 side scenery, night 12 point there are a lot of the ferry boat to rent Room clean, but broadband Internet fee very high, a day to 250000VND (1 $ = 15600VND) … Air conditioning is too cold, sleep to deep blackmail has to cover two bed quilt ... .. think hotel was OK, the next morning was renewed, Halo, hotel gave me the price is only $ 98 ... than the airport there's also a cheap $ 27. strongly recommends that you do not set the room at the airport ...

The next morning shopping, at the beginning of the sitting over there of tricycles. speak good price is 5 million rupiah for one hour, beginning also sit Tucker, the driver is also very enthusiastic, we said to buy cigars, he helped me to buy a HIGH medicine went to Paris.

Think the second driver is not honest to say that each person to 10 million guilders (we took a less than two hours), I don't ride a child to play back-I didn't think they could face, said to a person 50 million guilders. want to be in the $ 32. calculate an hour $ 16, TNND, than domestic Manager's hourly rate is high, the reasonthat is to kill people ... just to fire up ... In the contend the end of the Sun for more than 10 minutes, give a 25 million guilders a were able to escape. strong cases suggest that you don't sit this tricycle, actually playing and also cheaper, usually start price but one dollars because I see in front of friends say in HCM have to bargain with the driver, they don't pay the rent on the monitor So my first play, a lecture on the bus and the driver, about the good price of 3 million guilders, the result to the destination at the table on only after 10 1.5 million. several times a vehicle that does not talk about prices, the driver did not carry over the price, is shown on the table payments. never and taxi pricing offer, a what do sit speak, let him follow make table is just fine-case payment by table, well you get on a sat asked price, he must want to kill you.

Finished live, eat, talk about the ...

Each meal to go to different places to eat near the POST OFFICE has many characteristics of Viet Nam restaurant, mostly local residents transformation into, a bit like the 1930s Shanghai cottage, green Misty forests, birds, the next day at 2 o'clock have rain, this time sitting on the second floor corridor drink drink enjoying tea, fruit and Viet Nam. Viet Nam Choi acid and sweet, I tried a meal will not want to ... It found that there are delicious crab, big, meat, tasty, cheap .8 two until around $ 5 or so, the home side to a fewer said ... There's roadside 200RMB of coconut juice don't miss, cheapest price is 4 Chin shield, very depressed, first buy when a roadside stalls of old man going to five million pieces. Remember the counteroffer, more than 5 thousand do not buy a. ....

SHOPPING: buy local feature suggestions go CHO BEN THANU, clothing, crafts, food can find, and the price is low, but to do so, we are generally half also.

The same package, the only hotel nearby price of 1/3 or so. The other is the shopping malls, and internally it makes no difference.

Viet Nam Belle! this is the deepest impression.

Go to malls, brand stores, COFFE SHOP, see beauty is really a lot, it really lives up to its name. The overall feeling is very exquisite ... because I am a man, not to ask in this sunny town how to keep it so its all ....

(The Central Post Office, 1886)

(The Vietnam war experience Museum, come here to visit the United States is very large sector, I don't know if there is a lot of Japan to refer to the War Memorial Hall)

(CHO BEN THANU, things are very cheap, very characteristic with Viet Nam, it is highly recommended.)

(Saigon River)

(The streets of Paris.

There is taste of socialism.)