This week, our Travel pics series is H for Ho Chi Minh City. I love to travel and today’s image – a typical street scene in HCMC – is a good example of why. I’d hired a Xich Lo, or Cyclo, to get a ride around Ho Chi Minh City for a while – just to…
This week, our Travel pics series is H for Ho Chi Minh City. For Thursday, a view I’m calling Bricks and Billboards, taken from our hotel in HCMC, The Ruby River. It’s typical of the vistas in Ho Chi Minh City – utilitarian, a bit run down – and peppered with reminders that this country…
This week, our Travel pics series is H for Ho Chi Minh City. And for Wednesday, it is a couple of market stalls in the Ben Thanh markets in District 1, or central Ho Chi Minh City. I’ll talk about the history of the markets later this week but its interesting that these particular markets have…
This week, our Travel pics series is H for Ho Chi Minh City. If you go to Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon) in Vietnam, whether you book any day-tours around the city or just follow the guide-books, there are a number of places that are almost guaranteed to be on the itinerary. There’s the…
This week, our Travel pics series is H for Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City is the largest city in Vietnam – it has more than 10 million people, and that’s expected to increase by another four million within 10 years. It also has an OFFICIAL 3.5 million motorcycles – but suggestions are it…
This week, our Travel pics series is G for Gardens. Here in Australia, as in the US and other industrialised nations, agriculture has been industrialised – we have massive combine harvesters and air-conditioned tractors and giant insect-like cane cutters, and tea-picking machines that replace dozens of workers, and … well, you get the idea. While there…
Here’s the Eleventh episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel and Cruising This week in cruise news – hello, and goodbye, to ships servicing Australia; and in Travel – what happens when you negotiate a price – and the local wants more later? Enjoy!
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! For Wednesday, we are at My Son, near Hoi An in central Vietnam. My Son was built by the Cham people, who ruled Central Vietnam from about 200AD to 1700AD – the area was finally annexed by the Vietnamese…
The theme letter for our travel pics the last two weeks has been V, for Vietnam. Our final image comes from Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon – and its of my shadow as I took a Xich Lo (or Cyclo) ride around HCMC Cyclo rides are a great way to see the city –…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week again is V, for Vietnam. Our second last picture is in Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as its better known to westerners. HCMC is the name given to the city by the winners of the Vietnamese civil war – but just to confuse matters, the…
