Just back from another short trip to vietnam, we flew vientiane to saigon , then took a short flight with Vietjet airlines to phu quoc island , then took the hydrofoil from saigon to Vung tau .
In saigon we stayed in the new liberty hotel which ran me about $80, great view of the saigon river and close to District 1 which is where a lot of Tourists seem to wind up
It was absolutely pissing down when we landed making me wonder why we were of on a beach holiday in the first place.
A Hydrofoil coming in from vung tau, The viets bought these things from Russia where they were already considered to old to be in service, They get going at a pretty good clip and its a fairly comfortable 1 and a half hour trip down the saigon river to vung tau
View over saigon
Saigon has about 10 million population and is absolutely Frantic with traffic
i was gagging for a drink so we headed out to the Historic Caravelle hotel for a drink in the roof top bar
District 1 has got some amazing old architecture
The building in the background is the Bitexco tower, the tallest one in saigon and also a good place to get a drink and a view over the city, Plenty of eye candy about to
Plenty of floating restaurants down by the river
we took heaps of photos but im having drama uploading them on photobucket so will post some more of phu quoc and vungtau later .
what i did notice in vietnam is they arent big on punters bringing tarts back to the Hotel , Not very sporting of them really