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Mpls_Korean
Joined: 15 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul, Korea
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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject: Any suggestions for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam? |
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I'm going to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam next weekend. Has anyone been there? What are your suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:50 am Post subject: |
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You'll love it. Grab an LP guidebook.. so it'll at least direct you into the cheap backpacker-type hotel area - I forget the name right now.
Once there, you'll have 50 tourist-related things throughout all of the hotels and all the other offices, and you can choose whatever you fancy to do while there.
Personally, I did the Mekong, the Cu-Chi Tunnels, and to see the temple of that fusion world religion church (forget the name of the religion). |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
You'll love it. Grab an LP guidebook.. so it'll at least direct you into the cheap backpacker-type hotel area - I forget the name right now.
Once there, you'll have 50 tourist-related things throughout all of the hotels and all the other offices, and you can choose whatever you fancy to do while there.
Personally, I did the Mekong, the Cu-Chi Tunnels, and to see the temple of that fusion world religion church (forget the name of the religion). |
Cau Dai. It's an amazing place.
Also go to the Reunification Palace. They have tours in English and it's very interesting.
Mogambo is a good restaurant, especially if you are jonsing for western food, and they have a mini-hotel attached (but I know nothing about it. The location is convienient to a lot of stuff.
I stayed at Madame Cuc Hotel 127 and it was nice and in the backpacker ghetto.
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| Try a river bout tour of the mekong. I met the canadian owner and it seems like a decent tour, plus the guy had been around, so maybe able to provide other helpful advice. |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:57 am Post subject: |
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Mekong river tour...Cu Chi Tunnels...Presidential Palace...Bu Vien street...cathedral....
see if you can find the blue Chevy SS (I think), fully loaded and with mag wheels!!! someone has one in HCMC....pretty sweet lookin' ride |
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plato's republic
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Ancient Greece
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Ditto what the other posters said. Isn't the backpacker area called Pham ngu lao or something? Or am I confusing that with a Vietnamese dish? Anyhow, great place to spend a few days sightseeing and chilling out. Take a motorcycle-taxi and enjoy a near-death experience for the cost of a few measly shillings...  I heard that there are around a million motorbikes on the streets of Ho Chi Minh!!!  |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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the place i stayed at was "miss loi's guesthouse". it's in the lonely planet and is in a really cool area called co giang. there's tons of cheap and super-clean guest houses around here but miss loi's was the one i chose and i think i was lucky. they treat you really well and are helpful with any tourism stuff you may do.
all the motorbike cab guys know where it is. it's really nice and within walking distance of pham ngu lao. pham ngu lao is the backpacker area, much like khao sarn road in bangkok, but it's noisy and more seedy than co giang.
after HCMC... and i cannot stress this enough, GO TO MUI NE. it is so beautiful there. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Ah, you make me wish it weren't the beginning of the semester!
From my favorite little place to have breakfast- great coffee! Just off Bu Vien.
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