Saigon Stories


Our Adventure Begins - Getting to Saigon

Our trip adventure began at 9am when our driver came to pick us up for the trip to JFK. I had been up since 4am so I knew it was going to be a LONG day! The first flight took us to Tokyo and was about 13-14 hours...not actually sure how long the flight was because it wasn't actually spelled out on our flight itinerary and with all the time changes we...


We might have forgotten to blog again...

Sorry for the delay (and the back dating) but we didn't get a chance to blog while we were actually in Saigon. The city itself isn't so great- it's not as nice as Hue, but is busier, smoggier and not as friendly. Having said that, it has great bia hoi and a zoo, so I was pretty chuffed. We also got to visit the War Remnants museum and the Cu Chi tun...


Miss Saigon, not sure we will really

We arrived in Saigon about an hour late, after our bus was rear ended by a truck en route. Luckily no one was injured but our bus refused to work after that and we got crammed into two tiny seats on a minibus. We were warned that Saigon had more scooters and was crazier than Hanoi. It may have more scooters but the madness was worse in Hanoi. Ther...


Good Morning Vietnam

Our trip ends in the former capital of Vietnam, Saigon. A very busy city with millions of mopeds. Our group went for a walk and had our last supper and partyed to the wee hours of the morning. Plenty of scandal but thats for another time (Door men with batons, they take no shit). On our own now Michelle and I went out to see the Chu Chi tunnels in a...