Trip To Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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This entry is about my family trip to Ho Chi Minh City on 17th to 20th Jan 2014. Please enjoy reading!

Tips!

1. Money - Bring a lot of RM and convert it to VND in Vietnam! You'll get higher RM value here. Plus, if your plan is to shop in Ben Thanh Market or somewhere in Malaysia Street worry not, they accept RM, VND and USD. Please don't forget to activate your ATM card for overseas usage.. Kalut nanti! hahaha!

2.  Transportation - Once you reached the airport, head towards the front door from the departure hall, turn left and walk straight, there's a lift on the left sight just before Burger King, go up to level 2, find your Vinasun Taxi there. The taxi fare is cheap. I was charged around 140,000 VND (RM+-25) from airport to my hotel. We travel by Vinasun to go here and there in Vietnam... in average the taxi fair is about 50,000VND (RM8+-).

3.  Accomodation - It is best to book your hotel through the hotel online booking. I booked Blessing 1 hotel through booking.com and I paid 3,780,000.00VND (RM570+-) for 3 nights stay. It is strategically located at Malaysian Street , near halal restaurants, convenient store and ATM.The best part is, the hotel is 5 minutes away by foot to Ben Thanh Market!

4.   Communication -Most of the Vietnamese (taxi driver, police, security guard, bell boy) can't speak English very well, some sellers can speak Malay though, so it is important to print out your hotel address or whatever place you want to go so that they can read and take you to the right place!

5.   Food - I cant say much about Vietnamese food because we only eat at Warung Saigon 1Malaysia. Chinese Cuisine, affordable price range from 80,000 VND (RM13+-) to 150,000 VND (RM25+-). People! please try their Trung Nguyen Vietnam Coffee! The best in the world!

Going Places!

Arrival

 

The View of Malaysia Street from Our Hotel Room 

Day 2

 

Day 2 - We pay a visit to the War Remnants Museum 

Entrance Fee : 15,000 VND per person 

Actually, we have planned to watch a Water Dragon puppet show later in the evening, somehow the show was full and we booked for the next day slot. So that evening we take a brisk walk along Saigon Park.

Day 3

  

Day 3 - A quick visit to Ben Thanh Market to get some Vietnam Cotton. In total, we bought 30 pieces of Vietnam Cotton. In fact, there was a Night Market every night around Ben Thanh market, the goods sold are similar to the one in Ben Thanh market only lesser choice. We went to the night market everyday... i repeat EVERYDAY! Hahahahahha! Sorry no pictures here... night market looks similar with the one in Malaysia.. use your imagination people!  hihihihi!

Notre Dame Cathederal .

Ho Chi Minh Central Post Office

 

Walk like this to reach your next destination... Hard Rock Cafe HCMC! 

Give this lady a chair! she's all tired.

Finally, The Water Dragon Puppet Show. A must visit place if you go to HCMC! Very interesting show but I cant concentrate on the show because I was busy breastfeeding my cranky baby. 

Entrance Fee is 160,000VND (RM22+-)

To sum everything up, Vietnamese people are very friendly, nice and helpful. I don't know why but they seems to like my girl's curly hair. Maybe curly hair is somewhat rare in Vietnam. Hahhahah! We don't get a chance to visit Mekong River and Chu Chi Tunnel though, if someday Allah permits, we'll pay HCMC a visit again! Thanks HCMC for treating us well! 

Next in line is Jakarta! 

Thanks for reading!