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March 3, 2007
Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) - Joe
Down town Saigon is one off the most random places I have ever been. The traffic is on rush hour mode all the time. One off the guides who lives in Saigon told us that there are 8million people living in the city and there are 4 million scooters, and on an average day 20 people are killed on the roads around the city.
Apart from all the chaos Saigon also is one of the nicer cities I have visited. The people are genuinely nice too, and not because they want your money. Even the book sellers on the street don’t hassle you.
Around the city there are lots of interesting places such as the war museum. Just in the centre of the city is the main post office and it seemed a bit of a waste of time to go and look at a post office, but this one is an exception. It is massive and as you walk though the big front door you can see a large painting of Ho Chi Min at the far end.
The roof it made out of large sheets of glass with metal girders. It is was well worth having a look round and taking some photos.
As a city Saigon is quite modern and it’s still one of the cheapest place to stay.
The food in the city is really good there’s not just local food like frog, dog and pig head, you can eat pretty much anything from pizza to pie and chips.
We head off tomorrow and head offtravel north to Dalat. That should take about 5 or 6 hours.
Posted by admins at March 3, 2007 2:57 AM
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Joe – did you manage to find any other ‘northern’ gravy? OB
Posted by: OllieBray at March 3, 2007 12:38 PM