We stayed at this hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. It was probably one of the cheapest hotels around. The bedrooms and the quality of service were excellent.
They don't really have a proper system. Cars, big vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles can be seen everywhere on the road.
This picture was taken from our mini van.
They covered their faces using masks.
This lady must have had really excellent handling skills to have the guts to take this small kid on a ride.
Loads of durian out there!
Have you ever seen this congested and thick telephone cables?
Our first destination was to visit this Handicraft Centre which was established for the handicaps who suffered from the vietnam war.
This salesgirl was explaining to us how the handicrafts were processed and made.
The Istana Nurul Iman was in fact one of their finished products. This was displayed just outside the building.
This was actually a limited edition. It was around $170US.
Fascinating scorpion key chains.
Look at the no of fruits on this tree. Is it not amazing?
This was the entrance to the CHU CHI TUNNEL. They had to build these tunnels to fight against the Americans.
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A Malaysian wanted to test whether her body could fit into the hole of this underground tunnel.
Different kinds of traps were shown to us which were used during the vietnam war.
This tunnel could not be used anymore as it was infested with lots of poisonous insects and reptiles.
Another entrance to the tunnel.
Statues that portrayed what the vietnamese soldiers wore during the war.
American tanker which was used during the war.
More traps...
Our tour guide was demonstrating to us how the traps actually worked.
"Hello Sir"
Everyone was welcomed to test this live machine guns with live and true bullets!!
My wife's brothers were testing the AK 47...of course with under this man's supervision.
Live bullets thrown on the ground.
I could not stand taking these pics. The sound from the fired shots was unbearable.
This was the main food that they ate during the war. In Brunei we call it "tumpi".
How did they dig the tunnels? These pics showed how they dug it...
The slipper that they wore during the war.
The impact of a bomb thrown from the sky from American Jets.
A real and true experience inside the tunnel.
It seemed that the walls of this tunnel were cemented but actually not. These were still made of dry and hard soil.
I was suffocating inside and was only able to crawl like an insect.
The moment when i saw this ladder, there was a sigh of relief. It was a once in a lifetime experience.
We could breath the fresh air.
The health bunker
The kitchen
This smoke was actually coming from the kitchen of the underground tunnel. The smoke was only released in the early morning so that it looked like fog and the Americans would not notice.
These pics were taken from a market within the city itself.
IPA-NIMA. This branded bag is regarded as the most expensive bag in vietnam.
This was one of the halal restaurants.
I found a masjid just within a 10 minutes walk from our hotel.
Vietnamese kids
These kids did not want to leave. They kept on asking me to take their pics.
Saigon Square, a shopping complex, is equivalent to Millimewah in Brunei...hehehe
Halal food in Parkson.
Old vietnamese are still working to sell these fresh coconuts along the streets. One fresh coconut is around 30,000 dong, that's around 2US.
Variety of fruits
