#hochihminhcity

[cazedmunds]

Seeing the city from up above! 🌃🌃🌃 . . #SaigonSkyDeck #Vietnam #Vietnam2019 #CazTravels #CazTravels2019 #HoChihMinh #HoChihMinhCity (at Bitexco Tower - TP. Hồ Chí Minh) https://www.instagram.com/p/B39jMNGHYW7/?igshid=i2c8exd8dkcn

[notesofjo]

Crazy traffic, #sunset, and cool air after the rain pretty much summarized our first day in #saigon #hochihminhcity #vietnam 🇻🇳 #travel #travelblogger #travelphotography . . . #igtravel #igasia #travelgram #instatravel #seasia #southeastasia #traffic #worldtrip #ttot #travelersnotebook #travelpic #travelnow #traveladdict #travelasia #travelauthentic #travelawesome #worldtraveller #worldtravel #instago #instasia #instastory (at Chợ Bến Thành - Ben Thanh Market)

[novemberraspberries]

Who said #Busrides are boring? When you get your own personal #bed to sleep in for a 7-hour ride to #Dalat , THIS. IS. HOW. YOU. SLEEP. 🇻🇳❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇻🇳 #musicstudent #desserts #sweet #love #life #ucsi #music #laugh #friends #happy #lifegoal #friendshipgoal #saigon #vietnam #hochihmin #hochihminhcity (at Ca3 Lê Hong Phong,Q5)

[travelingapes]

Happy Near Year Vietnam! Back in Ho Chi Minh City for New Year's Eve we packed the streets along with the rest of humanity in Saigon's backpacker district. Phạm Ngũ Lão Street is a sight to see even when it's not the biggest party night of the year. Plastic chairs five rows deep line the narrow street on both sides for anyone who wants to plop down and people watch. Cheap beers and street food can be ordered in the chaos, or you can flag down any number of rolling vendors passing by. Don't expect a lot of room for your plates though, and utensils consist of toothpicks only! Even though it's practically a pedestrian street, motos and vehicles still zoom through the crowds-- and NYE there was a monstrous traffic jam on top of the partiers lining the corridor. The backpacker district of Saigon is on par with that of Khaosan Road in Bangkok with the amount of western tourists and bars. In the city of Uncle Ho, we encountered yet another unique form of tourist transport, exercising grandmas en masse and tasty meat on sticks grilled just inches away from smoggy traffic. Ho Chi Minh City was highly entertaining.

[novemberraspberries]

My second home 🇻🇳🏠 ngôi nhà thân yêu ❤️ #musicstudent #desserts #sweet #love #life #ucsi #music #laugh #friends #happy #lifegoal #friendshipgoal #saigon #vietnam #hochihmin #hochihminhcity (at Thanh Lôc, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam)

[novemberraspberries]

🤗🤗🤗😉🤗 #novemberraspberries #photography #photo #travel #celebration #cny #2017 #malaysia #shahalam #ucsi #love #nails #iphone #hochihminhcity #party #red #aodai (at Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)

[novemberraspberries]

😍😍😍 #nail #nailart #gold #white #novemberraspberries #photography #photo #travel #celebration #cny #2017 #malaysia #shahalam #ucsi #love #nails #iphone #hochihminhcity #party #flatlay (at Klang)

[novemberraspberries]

My first #UberMotor ride! Hahaa, cảm ơn bạn, Trí ! For bringing me around. 🤣 #uber #fun #Vietnam #Saigon #SaigonCity #Malaysia #Blogger #Shop #novemberraspberries #music #ucsi #college #friend #friendship #memories #goodtimes #travel #hanoi #work #hochihminhcity (at Sài Gòn)

[travelingapes]

Ho Chi Minh / Uncle Ton While in Siagon as a Western tourist you can't not go to the War Remnants Museum, no matter your view on the Vietnam War. Previously known as the "Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes" and "Exhibition House for US and Puppet Crimes," it houses an overtly one-sided display from the North Vietnamese point of view. (Siagon is in south Vietnam.) Many of the brutal photographs are from American sources, though. During our trip, we went to many war museums with military vehicles, aircraft and weapons on display. Almost always, we were the only non-Asians visiting. Not the case at this museum, where Euro tourists, including lots of Germans, flocked to see the anti-US propaganda. We also stopped by the museum dedicated to the Communist Party leader who took over after the more famous Ho Chi Minh-- Uncle Ton. Pretty entertaining to see how many different repetitions and forms were on display of Uncle Ton and Uncle Ho together. Then, it was time to take an overnight train in a hard-sleeper cabin, a la Wes Anderson movies, 10 hours to Nha Trang.

[travelingapes]

Saigon / Apocalypse Now Straight out of Austin Powers, the presently named "Reunification Palace" (or Independence Palace) is a time capsule showcasing very retro power-military style. The palace was the home of South Vietnam's President during the war, and the iconic site of the fall of Saigon when North Vietnamese tanks crashed through the front gates to take control in April 1975. Reminiscent of the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, we sauntered around the lavish, formal rooms and down into the military bunkers.

[travelingapes]

ho HO ho chih minh / Siagon Out of Cambodia and into Vietnam! We found ourselves surrounded by motorbikes (even more than Taiwan!) and seated at tiny plastic tables in tiny plastic chairs as the end of 2013 drew near. I was quite surprised by the opulence of many areas of this thriving city— with beautiful old churches, classical buildings constructed by the French, large museums, high-end hotels, and green parks for public exercising and gathering. Of course there were also cramped alleys, haphazard markets, sketchy streets, and the constant warnings about your backpack being ripped off your body by thieves on motorbikes. (This never happened, but we were warned by locals every time we left an establishment.) Food was always cheap, mostly great, and almost always eaten outside a foot away from the street.