Mekong Delta – Can Tho

Mekong Delta – Can Tho

5.00am start!!!! How stupid am I? This is supposed to be vacation! But the reason was to see the sunrise on the Mekong and also the floating market which is much bigger than yesterday. We didn’t see a sunrise (or the sun for that matter 🙂 ) – but...
Mekong Delta – Cai Be

Mekong Delta – Cai Be

First day of a 2 day Mekong Delta Tour with my private tour guide Jason. 7:30 start and then a nice drive with a lot of information to Cai Be. There we spent a lot of time on a boat on the Mekong delta. Visiting the “floating market” (like a marketplace on...
Saigon by night

Saigon by night

… views from Henry’s flat … nice … Henry showed me many places. Really cool. Great nightlife with many bars with live-music (the first one we went to featured a kind of Vietnamese Heavy Metal band – how cool is that!). In that weekend we managed to visit ...
Cu Chi Tunnels

Cu Chi Tunnels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu_Chi_tunnels Felt like in all those movies 🙂 – Amazing how small they are! (the ones you/a westerner can go through have been enlarged). All these “simple” but effective traps from the Vietcong – nearly felt...
Saigon / HCMC by scooter

Saigon / HCMC by scooter

Henry was so kind to let me have his scooter for the day (and following days) – Thanks so much :)How much fun it is to drive through Saigon with a scooter – unbelievable. Initially it looks crazy – but Saigon traffic has its own rules. I really...