Recent trip to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)

My wife and I had a wonderful trip to Ho Chi Minh city  02/April - 09/April  recently.

We touched down the airport at 12.20 pm and went straight to our hotel ( situated infront of  Ben Thahn Market). We took a taxi to TM brothers cafe to book a local tour to Mekong Delta (3 days 2 nights). We then toured Ben Thahn Market for the whole evening and tried our very first Vietnamese's dishes that night.

3/April-5/April Left Saigon for southern areas ( My Tho , Chau Tho and as far as to Pnorm Penh ) . We toured floating fishing market. We sat on different types of boats ( 20 persons', 8 persons' and 4 persons' capacities). We visited Bees'  farm , paper rice and noddles factories, incense making  etc. We bought honey sweets, wine, fruits along this fascinating journey. At night we enjoyed local delicacies for dinner at the hotel.

5/April reached Saigon at 6 pm. Rest

6/April We went city tour ourselves. We visited Nordes Damn Catheral, Reunitfication Palace, central Post Office, War meuseum etc. We had a wonderful lunch at one local restaurants. We took an afternoon nap. We went to a posh vietnamese restaurant for dinner! 

7/April . We joined a cooking class in Vietnam teaching us how to make authentic vietnamese's food.

Vietnamese Spring Roll

Caramel Pork in Clay Pot

Steamed Rice with Pandan Leave

Saute Banana in Coconut Milk

Tomato Soup with Egg

Fish Sauce...

We had a wonderful time !

8/April Spent the whole day shopping !!