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The first two days we're in Saigon, we encounter 3 taxi incidents which mainly concerns the taxi fare. One of them, was downright horrifying. Prior to our journey to Saigon, I've made quite a research on that city. And in most of the websites that I've visited mention about the taxis in Saigon. After reading all of the warnings those blogs post, and gathering all the information I got, I felt quite confident with traveling around Saigon using taxi. Or so I thought. The first incident: Upon exiting the Arrival Hall at the airport, at the left side of the door, there were tons of wardens and taxis lined up to do their business. We walked away until at the end of the taxis as we want to take the Vinasun Taxi(as per suggested in many websites). At first I spoke to the Vinasun Taxi Warden to get us a taxi. But then, he suddenly disappear to do something I dont know what and come another warden in front of us and ushered us to the taxi beside the Vinasun Taxi. I was...

We're going back today!!!! Nothing much to do today as we got a flight to catch. So....before the flight thingie happen.... Breakfast! Ben Thanh market for the last minute shopping ! ! ! ! !  ^^ Snap snap......kachik kachik kachik....... Last minute packing Notice Imah wearing Vietnam's clothe? heh :P And Sayonara Vietnam ! ! ! ! *sigh* this is one good trip. I definitely have to come here again! There's so much places that I didn't go on this trip due to the lack of time. PS: Pandas ! if you read this, lets plan a trip to vietnam!

Today we're going to Cu Chi Tunnel!!! For those who dont know, go google it. Or just go take the tour  when you have the chance. We take the tour that was provided by the hotel. But the tour itself was actually from Tuan Travel Day Tours. We paid at the Hotel for the 1/2 day tour for 10USD. But I kinda notice that if you straight away go to their agency, it was like 3USD(if I'm not mistaken. But I'm pretty sure it was less than 5USD). The Admission fee to the Cu Chi Tunnel is VND90,000(more or less 4.5USD) Anyway, that morning, at 7.a.m., we had breakfast at Basiroh. By 7.45 a.m., a bus will drop by our hotel and fetch us. It was not until 8a.m. that the bus drove away from it's parking spot because we were waiting on people to get into the bus. But then, we still not heading to the Cu Chi Tunnel. We stopped at 2 Tuan Travel Day Tours's place to fetch the tour guide and the people joining the tour. 8.20 a.m., we finally hit the road. Our tour guide was a war veter...

The day before, we decided to change our hotel despite the good service. Location of the hotel is vital for us to fulfill our purposes of going to Saigon. So we've google'ed a bit, got some information on the internet, and booked our selves a room near Ben Tanh Market. USD37 for 3 person per night was not bad. Change to Saigon Pink 2 Hotel what's great about this hotel? Ben Tanh Market just a block away. And! there are TWO Halal Food Restaurant just in front of the hotel. Aint that the most convenient thing?. The 2 Kedai Makan Anyway, we reach our hotel around 9-10? a.m. and we wont be able to check ourselves in up till 2p.m.. So, we decided to leave our bags at the Hotel's reception(those were nice staffs. Thank god we were blessed with nice hotel services) and began our task as tourists ^^...but important things first. Fueled up our stomach's tank at Basiroh! Tank fulled, hopped on to a taxi that just hanging around waiting for a customer in front of...

26th of September 2012, my Mom, Imah and Me went to Ho Chi Minh City(previously known as Saigon) The flite took about 2 hours to reach HCMC's airport. We bought Bukhara Chicken Briyani(pre-booked) and it was ok-ish. It was raining that day. And the ride kinda bumpy. Felt like riding a roller-coaster(I love roller coaster!) During our stays in Ho Chi Minh City(lets just call Saigon after this shall we? HCMC is just too long), we have quite a few incidents with the taxi. I'm going to make a post just on that. Later. For now, let's just go tru what we've done on the 1st day, yes? So, we checked-in to our hotel. The hotel was good. The room was okay(love the bath tub!). Service was great, tho it's a bit hard to understand what the staffs are trying to say(english). We even asked them to book the water puppet ticket for us. Wi-Fi connection was okay. The only thing that was a bit unfortunate for us was the location of that hotel. It's quite far from the Dist...