HO CHI MINH City - 24th Feb. 2015 to 27th Feb. 2015

Our entry in Vietnam was through the largest city of the country. Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon, as it was formerly known, when it was still the capital of the French Colony of Cochinchina. After the Vietnam War ended, the city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City, in honor of President Ho Chi Minh (who are embalmed in his mausoleum in Hanoi).

The city is located in the south of Vietnam, and althoungh it doesn't have anything special, it's nice to walk around the center and admire its buildings. Its traffic is stressful as it is a non-stop motorbikes everywhere and at all hours but it's still worth spending a day walking here.

Motorcycles and more motorcycles

Here you have a photo collection of our route through the city.

Among skyscrapers, Bitexco Financial Tower

Post Office

City Hall

Reunification Palace

We arrived at the War Remnants Museum, a very interesting museum and full of photographs, helicopters, airplanes... to tell the war crimes that United States committed during the Vietnam War. We don't really like to visit museums, but this is a good one and we recommend you this visit if you want to know more about the Vietnam War.
 

Here we met Pablo Sigismondi, a geographer and photographer from Argentina, who spend the days traveling around the world, documenting conflicts through photography of its people and show its situation.

War Remnants Museum (photo by & with Pablo Sigismondi)

And this is the summary of our walk through the former Saigon.

The kitchen of our favourite restaurant

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From Ho Chi Minh we travelled by plane to Da Nang, located on the central coast of Vietnam. To go from downtown to the airport we took the public bus 152, witch departs from the big bus stop, very close to Ben Thanh Market. We paid 10.000 dong (about 0,50€)per person (including baggage surcharge).