Saigon Day 3

SIN CHAO SAIGON..(Goodmorning Saigon kononnya)betul kah?

3rd day...we decided to go Historical...on foot...under a dry and hot weather...harus di ingati kami org2 yg jarang bersenam...
folowing a guide yg memang sendiri tidak tau apa...tetap berjalan...! thank God for wifi..i use this http://www.vietnam720.com/ as a guide..his blog was great as a guide in saigon...we walk and walk ...we pass some art galery...paintings were awesome...we came to this...!

The People Community Building....!

us all..

there was a nice swiss lady who offered to help us take a group pics....

pelakon It's complicated...! (on honeymoon ker??)

Muka tensen...i struggling cari jalan..org lain sibuk pulak posing....!!

the gals at Notre Dome Church...

Bandung UNderGROUND???

standed procedure...every 2 hours...our tanks wud be empty so we stop at the famous Pho 24 restaurant....

Model pho 24

back to possing....

trying to fit in...

iklan minum air....the weather was really hot...so make sure if you all go be equipt with a botol of water...

Model Tiang pejabat pos...

kat Malaysia korang pernah kah lepak di post office???Di saigon we did...! it was a cool place...

buying souveniers at the post office

i think the sign says no entry to gumuk people hehhee...

One thing facinated us was walking on the Saigon streets....!! we were like "kebal"..just walk accross the streets and the motorbike wud just give way or "elak" you...!!

after a long walk around. we actually did go to the reunification Building and War Museum but it was close for lunch...!! so we decided to walk and look for something else....then we saw JOLLYBEE...!! yeah...teringat masa manila...! tapi jollybee kat saigon total failure....!(sorry was so hungry didn't take any photo...)jollybee was more important then those historical building hehehe...!!

mlm itu ada org APC di paksa untuk belanja kami makan...!! lumayan segala Dinner was 700,000 Dong....wakakakakka pucat itu org mau bayar hehehehe...!!arigato gozaimas...!! no pictures of prove because everybody lapar....!!

Saigon Day 2 (part mlm)

sambungan Day 2

After freshening up....(i left out the part we were all soak wet at the chu chi tunnel...bukan kerana peluh k...but it was rainning heavily when we got out...)sekali lagi kedegilan terpancar...we read we had to be ready fir sudden downpour...! tp kemalasan pancho tinggal aja di hotel...

so we had our first adventure on foot....Ti recommended we go to a "pho shop" down then corner..it was not really the next corner...we at to walk about 3 blocks away....that was the first encounter with vietnam pho bo...(Fur ber). there we met popong's new love...si Dong Deng...(i don't know his name..)but kalau tengok muka dia mesti ingat Dong Deng...he was like a teacher teaching his student how to pronounce vietnamese but student tia pandai2...oh ya we did order beef stew noople...! tang mana noople i don't wanna know hehehe...

So lepas PHO...we went to Ben Than night market again...(we went the first nite)...we had a good work out walking in saigon...!! (patut lah perlu stamina hehehe) but kira dahsyat lah... this time melencong ikut jalan lain...then we came to this icecream shop...(standed lah every 30 minit mesti refill...)

 we had this... ala2 fondue..14 flavours icecream balls...with waffels..and fruits...deeping in melted choc...not mistaken it cost us 70,000 Dong...(100,000 dong is RM19)...antara flavour yg tidak pernah cuba is  choc chili..!durian was overpowering...

desert pun sudah...k terus maju ke ben than...it's kinda like pasar malam...or petaling street but smaller version..people were friendlier too....we met some malaysian there...sarawakin lah to be exact...tetiba ada perasaan happy jumpa org kampung hehehe...the ben than nite market had lots bajus,souveniers...rokoks..."biasssss".. place to makan...seafood!!..erm...FRUITS..!! i think this time we really ate lot's of fruits...sudah lah byk exercise mkn fruits lagi..wah ain't we all health concious...mangkali lah..!

after working round...my gurlfrens decided to buat dress sedondon...mo p wedding org katanya...!!so upacara sukat menyukat berlangsung..

dan terdapat satu mamat yang mengolok saja...tapi apa lah kami peduli sama ko fread.bah tau sudah the measurement sila lah hadiah kan dress2 pada mereka k..!

 

dress will be ready the next day...!!fuh dahsyat lah tailoring...one day...i think one dress cost 250,000 dong..(RM60++) (yeah yeah aku akui...aku menyesal tidak membuat satu pasang utk diri sendiri sekarang)

 

after beli membeli ...we came to this stall...colourfull glutionous rice...nasi pulut lah tu...flavour berbeza2..but to me sama saja rasa dia just that the coconut milk on top yang bagi taste...hehee...

 

ala lupa pulak..but i don't have pics of the mango a.k.a ciku...! kononnya mau beli mango balik hotel mau makan sekali sampai hotel bukan mango la...CIKU...!!! tapi it was really2 big...!!

lepas tu jalan balik hotel...malam itu 2 tongkang berlayar di temankan satu lagi enjin yg tidak dpt start...!! GUDNITE SAIGON..

Saigon Day 2 - You know whats a virgin??

DAY 2

 tongkang pun berlabuh...we were all pump up and ready to face the city...

mandi siap2 smua and turun bawah makan breakfast...this was the menu...

everyday breakfast was prepared for us....Bread and BUTTET....fruit water of the day was pineapple juice...

this is what we ate....hmm actually the presentation was better....ini gaya org mau cepat and praktikal....(hari itu ada org lapar cos makan secara berstyle then no time to finish it...)

memang rasa homey ini tempat...just like being at a friend's home.

we were enjoying breakfast when tiba2...ada uncle marah..!! felt like being scolded by ur friend's dad... yeah...we were late...we were suppose to be on the bus at 8am it was 8.10...

By the way...thanks to our group tour managers ...ms togs and Mr Frds... we went on a tour to the Chu chi tunnel (pronounce Ku Chi) and Cao Dai temple... via hotel arrangement...we paid USD 7 per person...it was a 3 hours bus ride..near the Cambodian border....

the bus we rode for 3 hours....

Camworing sisters...

the group...

we were introduce to the wild traffic in saigon.... i have never encounter so many motorbikes at one time..!!

First destination was the art factory by the war victims...

we arrived at the 2nd destination...the Cao Dai Temple...The Cao Dai (pronounce cow dye) is one of the most prominant religion in the country...it is a mix between christianity, Budhisme and ......(aduh aku lupa lah the other one...)

we had a new perspective of religion of this trip...with the introduction of the coconut religion too...wah..senang mau buat agama sendiri kan...!! hmm i am thinking of making my own religion too after this :P i have the plan already...

my archbishops....of my new religion :P

after the temple we went to a makan place...standed lah aktiviti wajib utk group ini....fud was ok...and quite cheap too...dah chan was great..(ice lemon juice).

after lunch we when to chu chi tunnel...this was the thing that got us all exercising before the trip...takut malu tidak muat hehehe...

our guide...don't you think he looks cute... i love his qoute....you get what you pay....!! we paid a low fare so we got a not handsome and "mulnutritious"???? guide he said...! inspirasi utk menjadi tour guide...when telling jokes in a language not your mother tongue put on a straight face...!! ( the topic of this post ada kaitan sama joke itu uncle..)

kecik kan the hole???

we were told the tunnels where renovated 2 times to make it bigger...hmm...bayangkan the original size lah...

tadaaaaaaa.....aku muat lah...!!!(i tell you this was wide...heheeh.e..after this we didn't have photoes because it became smaller.. some places were pitch dark...)

we arrived back in the city around 6pm...it was the rush hour for working people in HCMC

we were wet and tired...so we walk back to our hotel(the bus stop us at the tour agency office)...surprisingly saigon was a cool place to just stroll the street...day or nite...so apa yang we read all this while mungkin hanya mitos..but don't know lah..we don't look like a bunch of people that have money thou...! muka pun macam budak2....pakaian pun entah apa2...that's why kot..!

to be continued lah k..!!

Welcome to Saigon...!

(aku pun mo buat lah blog about my trip...)*please don't follow wat we did...:P we are bunch of happy go lucky heavy eaters armed with printed out guidelines and lonely planets and dictionary that was left in our hotel room)

ok ok... here goes..

we booked our flight about almost a year ago...it was like one of our many dreams to travel together...!!

DAY 1

 we started our journey with meeting point at LC-CT...maribrown..!! (siapa punya idea lah tu..??)

checkin in....

ready to fly...!!

sky and cloud was awesome....memang ada perasaan lain if you travel with your besties and crazies friends....n.lemak air-asia pun boleh jadi rebutan...!!

Ho Chin Minh City

Greeted by miss Saigon...

baju wajib di mana2 negara kami step...

tokey taksi....

after months of planning and reading guidlines....as usually we broke every simple rule...guideline was walk straight turn right go up stairs take taxi name vinasun....!! (agaknya terlampau gairah n taksub hehehe) we walk turn right and went to taxi counter....!! :P as for fare...and was told USD 10... hantam aja lah...!! (baru terpikir dalam lonely planet cakap fare is 100,000 dong (RM1.90) kahkahakhakaha...kita bayar USD 10 ngoks...bongoks...!!! ( see i told you we broke the rule...)

when we got off the taxi (forgot the name of the company)...there was no sign of NGOC LINH HOTEL (pronounce ngok len..!) the taxi man pointed to a dark back alley...!! omygosh i was thinking...apa punya hotel ni ...!!

after being greeted by a young boy name Ti (tia tau spell) we were on the right track...Ti spoke english..even though most of the time misinterpret the question.....after checkin in we decided to jalan2 cari makan...

Ti writting details of our passport...! (i sent for you..?? inside joke)

we made our way to ben Thanh market...(fuh kira hebat lah kami..jalan2 sendiri....)

meal pertama yang terdiri dari pada siput...! beef....fish soup and watercrest (yg nama sebenar KANGKUNG...!!!) we were malaysia sejati...so have to eat rice...kena bagi rice tapi teda spoon..!! so aku akui..di malaysia aku tidak pakai hand  utk makan tapi di vietnam aku guna jari jemari...! (mau cakap tangan tapi mesti ada org bahan aku nanti kan...)

apa ko minum tu pong...??  nah nah..!

let's call it a nite....di iringi dengan bunyi tongkang berlayar...!!

Moral of the Day:

1.Sila lah ikut guide lines utk tidak rugi..tapi kalau korang mo macam kami berlagak kaya sila lah ikut hati bila bertindak :P...

2. Org vietnam jarang kelihatan makan nasi putih...!

3.Saigon byk makanan berbentuk siput...(aiii like...ada org masih owe me a bowl of siput)

4. BIA is bloody cheapsss...chip...chip...!