Indochina Trip 2013: Successful Adventure
Here's my total expenses except for my personal expenses (airfare, shopping, pasalubongs, etc. )
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Indochina Trip 2013: Successful Adventure (Budget)
Here's my total expenses except for my personal expenses (airfare, shopping, pasalubongs, etc. )
Indochina Trip 2013: Exploring Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Good Morning Saigon!
Ngoc Minh Hotel
Ngoc Minh Hotel arranged our half day Cu Chi Tour, for 6 USD per person. The tour guide fetch us at the hotel around 8 'o clock in the morning.
Since this is a group tour, we fetch some tourist along the way. Most of the tourist are Westerner, of course Asian like Japanese and Korean were also present on tour :)
After an hour, we had our 20 minutes stop over to the Handicapped Handicrafts, wherein amazing artistic people doing egg-shell masterpiece! Seeing how these artworks have done, I salute these hardworking people! Disability is not a hindrance to do things.
Entrance to Cu Chi Tunnel
my choice of breakfast, bread + omelette + milk coffee + pineapple :)
Ngoc Minh Hotel
Ngoc Minh Hotel arranged our half day Cu Chi Tour, for 6 USD per person. The tour guide fetch us at the hotel around 8 'o clock in the morning.
Since this is a group tour, we fetch some tourist along the way. Most of the tourist are Westerner, of course Asian like Japanese and Korean were also present on tour :)
Motorbikes are everywhere in Saigon
According to our tour guide, motorbikes population is much bigger than Vietnam's population, the ratio is like 3:1. I also learned that vehicles/car is pretty much expensive here, I guess that's the main reason of traffic free in Saigon.
After an hour, we had our 20 minutes stop over to the Handicapped Handicrafts, wherein amazing artistic people doing egg-shell masterpiece! Seeing how these artworks have done, I salute these hardworking people! Disability is not a hindrance to do things.
Cu Chi Tunnel
Opening Hours: Mon - Sat (9:00am - 6:00pm)
Entrance fee: 90,000 VND
Entrance to Cu Chi Tunnel
Our first stop is watch the documentary film.
Ben Douc Underground Tunnel Complex
Our tour guide who easily fits to the secret basement
Magic! ^^
Trap
More traps used during the war demonstrated by our tour guide
Mannequins soldiers
American Tank corpse in the tunnels of Cu Chi
I'm lost ^^
This is the original tunnel, that mostly Vietnamese or slim person can fit.
They made a tourist tunnel, where everybody can fit in and I personally tried it.
We exit to the the next tunnel and feel exhausted!
Showing how Vietnamese work on their weapons during the war, these are operated moving mannequins with sounds, you could even hear how they work on this.
Tourist can also enjoy shooting here.
You can also buy souvenirs here.
Bomb Crater
Done with Cu Chi Tunnel tour!
WAR REMNANTS MUSEUM
Entrance Fee: 15,000 VND
Opens daily: 7:30am - noon , 1:30pm - 5:00pm
What to see: Relics from the war
BEN THAN MARKET
For our last shopping we explore Ben Than Market and Saigon Square.
Lunch at Ben Than Market
Good bye Saigon!
We avail airport transfer offered by Ngoc Minh Hotel for 9 USD.
Tan Son Nhat International Airport
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