On my first day in Vietnam, I arranged through my hotel for a guide to take me around on a little motorbike tour of Saigon (also called Ho Chi Minh City). Here are some of the buildings and sites that I saw.
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| The Reunification Palace. The guard wouldn’t let us in since it was about to close, so I took this picture through the fence. |
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| Notre Dame Cathedral. You can definitely see the French influence in the architecture (as well as the name!). |
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| Another view of Notre Dame. |
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| A little room inside the cathedral. |
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| Inside Notre Dame Cathedral. The fence was to separate tourist wanting to take pictures from worshippers there to pray or attend a service. |
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| Another little room inside the cathedral. |
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| The Saigon Post Office, right across from the cathedral, is another famous building in Ho Chi Minh. |
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| As you can see, it really is a functioning post office. It was quite busy inside. |
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| This is the Saigon Opera House. My friend and I were thinking of going to see a show there, but it didn’t quite work out. (Plus it was really expensive!) |
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| A fountain right by the opera house. |
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| A random neighborhood in Ho Chi Minh. |
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| Downtown area. The skyscraper you see has a helicopter landing pad. |
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| Ho Chi Minh traffic. Notice all the motorbikes. We were told that Ho Chi Minh has ten million people – and six million motorbikes! |
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| A barge on one of the many canals. |
Click here to read my post about arrival in Ho Chi Minh and our hotel, the Golden Dragon.
… or the one about my boat tour of the Mekong Delta
… or the Cu Chi Tunnels (from the Vietnam War)