Saigon


	Most international flights land and take off from Saigon. It's a big, busy, hot and sometimes confusing city. Some people love it and others hate it. I think it's a lot of fun. There are so many good restaurants you could eat in a different place every day for months. Saigon also offers a wide variety of hotels and attractions. There are several destinations that are day trips from Saigon; Cu Chi tunnels, Tay Ninh and the Mekong Delta, to name a few. There are also many attractions in close proximity; the Notre Dame Cathedral, pagodas and museums. The traffic here is an attraction in itself. It is wheel-to-wheel motorcycles, bicycles, cyclos and taxis. Many of the streets are crowded with vendors selling all types of items. Haircuts and massages are being done right on the street, and all types of food stands everywhere. I enjoy just walking the streets and taking it all in. UPDATE 2007 Since I first started this website things have changed in Saigon. It has gotten even more crowded, more expensive and more hectic. It seems like the word’s out on Westerners as easy marks, even more than it was. You can hardly talk to anyone without it becoming some type of hustle. There seems to be an even bigger baby boom than before. There are babies everywhere. For some reason they all want to have boys and will go to extremes to make sure that’s what they have. I don’t know why, because the women and girls seem to do the majority of the work, go figure.
Floating Nursery on the Saigon River. The eyes on the front of the boat are for scaring the monsters on the river.	Cyclo driver asleep in his cyclo.
Saigon River at sunset. Living and working on all types of boats.	View out of one of our hotel rooms.
Barber doing his business right on the street, running his clippers from a motorcycle battery.	Typical night in Saigon, buzzing with motorbikes.
A street market, loaded with a wide variety of seafood.Some of which I've never seen before.	Fresh shrimp cooking on a coconut. It's easy to find good food everywhere you look.
Beautiful park in Saigon.	Fruit and vegetable stand in district 7.
Notre Dame Catholic Church.	Vegetables and fish in jars at the market.
Huong's little "man" practicing for when he gets a motorbike.	Debbie hanging out with Huong and Hoa.
A day at the races.
Highly recommended.	Lunch anyone?
Street fair. Try to get to the end without stepping on the moving sticks.	Every web site about Vietnam has to have a view from the top of the Rex Hotel.
The fruit in Vietnam is plentiful and fantastic.
Ms. Dat & Ms. Thuy. Two of the the girls that work at the Ngoc Minh Hotel in Saigon. The hotel is one of a group of affiliated hotels all in the same area of District One. They are very nice hotels, reasonably priced and conveniently located. I highly recommend them.	Ms. Thuy is recently married. She was very helpful in my stay there, and I wish her the best of luck.
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