Saigon - Day 2

Day 2 of our Saigon trip. This was Tour Cu Chi Tunnel day. The day before, we just randomly crossed the street and booked a tour at one of the travel agencies lined up in the Pham Ngu Lau district.

Lessons learned:

1. You should probably book a tour at a travel agency near where you're actually staying. Since we just randomly decided to book a tour, we ended up booking a tour at a travel agency which was still around 20 minutes away from our hotel. Boo. Good thing the meeting time was not too early, and we still had time to eat breakfast.


2. If possible, don't book a tour at a travel agency. Hehe. Since we were only 2 people, getting a taxi to Cu Chi (2 hours away from Ho Chi Minh City) was too expensive. There are also buses from Ben Than Market, but the easiest way would probably be via a tour. But, we did wait quite a while for the tour guide, we had to stop first at some lacquer factory selling goods to tourists, and yes, the tour guide basically ignored our group since he was also handling another group. Did I mention we had to wait a long long time for the other group to arrive at Cu Chi before we could start the tour?

Everything was good once we got going though. Bok conquered his claustrophobia. :) We also met a group of pinoys from CDO in the tour. After returning from Cu Chi, we ate at an eatery around the backpacker district called Kim's. I had yummy fried noodles while Bok had seafood pho, and we shared fried vietnamese spring rolls. Sarap eh. :) After walking around some more, we had a merienda of pizza and delicious draft beer at an Italian resto. Buy 2 take 1!