Travel : Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - December 2011

This is my 2nd visit to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

It's former name is Saigon. It is the largest city in Vietnam.

Honestly, i can barely remember their airport. And I was surprised when I saw that their airport is nice. Clean, simple, new, it looks like a small version of Changi airport to me. 

We took the half day city tour for our first day to explore the city. 

Ho Chi Minh City Hall - This is a good place to take a photo. It's like as if you're in Europe.

Emperor Jade Pagoda or Tortoise Pagoda - There's a lot of statues inside. Big and small. It's dark inside and you can smell the incense.

Next stop, we went to this place where handicrafts are made.

See this board? This is how it's done. It's pretty impressive actually. Everything is hand made. 

Here are the sample products.

I thought of making them as my wallpaper. They're very beautiful!

Reunification Palace - this was the site where the Vietnam War has ended. A tank crashed through its gates.

Notre Dame Cathedral

The Post Office - It really looks like a structure in Europe.

Inside the Post Office :

I think there are ATM machines inside these small rooms.

Ho Chi Minh is the man on the picture

Thich Quang Duc - he was a buddhist monk who burned himself to death to protest against the raping of buddhists.

Our city tour ended on this big boat in Saigon River where they served us dinner. One thing that I love in Vietnam is the food. So even though I was not very happy with our tour, all were gone after eating dinner. lols.