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Advantages: Still maintains a lot of its original character Disadvantages: very busy and chaotic traffic
village style. It also has lots of grapefruit trees which were gifts from various dignitaries as HoChiMinh apparently loved grapefruit.
We saw but did not go into HoChiMinh's mausoleum as it was closed on the day we went. The queues to see it when open are extremely long and can be very hot as there is no shade, so be warned.
The Temple of literature was built in 1070 and dedicated to Confucious. It was a place for higher learning in the Mandarin tradition literature famous men. It housed Vietnam's 1st University in 1076. It is a peaceful spot in the middle of busy Hanoi. It has an unusual way of displaying previous student's achievements on 82 stone diplomas on tortoises show the names and birthplaces of 1,306 students achieved their degrees here. It opens daily from 8am to 5pm and admission is 5000VND and an English guide is 3000VND ...
catsholiday 10.08.2008
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Advantages: Convenient and reasonable prices Disadvantages: Noisy and crowded
Arriving at Tan Son Nhat[HoChiMInh Aipport] is one thing - but leaving can be harder. The taxi-drivers know that you don't have any alternatives or so they think. They'll tell you a price which can be up to ten times more than the actual price on the meter. So what you should do is turn left and head towards 'Departure' cause the taxi-drivers down there are not part of the scam. Jump into to a taxi and tell them your destination.
And your destination if your budget is less than 5 star hotels and so on should be the "Pham Ngu Lao' area also called the backpacker zone. Here you find hotels/dormitories from $5 and up. A nice little room with aircon, fridge, tv and bathroom goes for around $10/12 and up.
Don't get stressed there are plenty of options in the area. Some people will most likely try to tell you that all the rooms are gone ...
Advantages: Exciting culture, new sites and smells, beats the old humdrum cities Disadvantages: Very hot in April
I was a little worried when I was informed that I had to go to HoChi Min City in Vietnam on business. I was brought up in the far east and I knew this place as Saigon. Sometime in the seventies Saigon became HoChi Min City.
***FIRST IMPRESSIONS***
My first impression was that it was very hot and dusty and had a strange sickly smell. Most foreign airports strike me that way when I first get off the plane, so this isn't something peculiar to this place. There were still soldiers, military vehicles and anti aircraft guns scattered about the place, just as they had been more than twenty years ago. I just hoped that the rest of the city had made progress.
***AIRPORT***
Everything looked crowded and dusty as we left Tan Son Nhat International Airport which is right in the heart of the city. There has actually been some ...
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