Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh (AKA Saigon)
Carly and I touched down in Saigon on Christmas Eve for our last night in Vietnam. We wanted to stay somewhere nice, since the following day was Christmas, so I booked us into the Kimdo Hotel, which was absolutely fantastic. The staff and the rooms were great, as was the location, smack dab in the middle of all the chaos that one might not expect on Christmas Eve in a communist country.
Carly and I sat down in the lobby bar for a pre-dinner drink.
Outside, the streets were packed. Traffic was EVERYWHERE, and all the kids were decked out in Santa outfits. People were in their Santa hats, and everyone was having a mad Christmas celebration. It was amazing.
Carly and I wandered through all the madness to get to Le Caprice, a French restaurant where we had dinner reservations, and enjoyed an amazing three hour dinner overlooking the river with a fine bottle of Argentinian Malbec.
I shot a couple short videos with our camera to try to capture the crowds, but I can’t be bothered to get them onto YouTube right now and put them up. So you’ll have to wait until some other time.
All in all – time in Vietnam was great. We flew back to Singapore on Christmas day, and it was good to be ‘home’.
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