Hello Ho Chi Minh...

Till date, still debating what took the fiestamania crews so long...

Long for???
Our 1st oversea trip...

Cracked our brain for a bit and decided on someplace relaxing yet adventurous...

So here our journey began:
As fiestamania step foot on the crazy street of vietnam...
Its not exaggerating when you see the number of motorbikes...
You might mistaken it as any grandprix race...

Yet the surprise was that they actually give way to pedestrian...
If it was to be in Singapore, i might have been made-deaf by the horns or knock down in the process...

Hello to the bustling city:

That aside, have to say everything in HCM seems so vibrant and colourful...

Yet most lead life not many desires...
Plain hardship yet bearing little fruits...
Yet most of us are complaining how hard life is...

Being the fiestamania we are,
No journey is complete without FOODIE...

The very 1st must try but not so nice must be *drumroll* the signature spring roll...
Looks damn appetising... But...

The expression tells it all...

The mixing of lotsa vegi + peppermint just dont blend...

So decided to skip that little part and have a feast, vietnamese style...

Everything comes to senses right after that...

Stomach were filled to the throat level...

Anymore would have cause an almighty eruption...

Spicy for most, similar to thai...

But an undescribable viet taste in it...

The night tookover...

The whole street were lighted up...

Metamorphose into another form...

Turning into a gigantic pasar malam...

Flies started to settle on the light bulbs...

Pushcarts & mats of sellers were placed all over...

Where all the bargaining begans...

The city life...

Basically everyday we were hunting down the streets finding for more nice makan places from travel guides and our own judgements...

Here's the other foodies we adored...

The famous hue noodle aka pho...
Dont know how the name come about but i truly fell in love with it...

Its like the guo-tiao here but with more tender and smoothness to it...

BBQ Garden is the place all tourist goes to...

Hided at a tiny dark corner of the street...

Its like a totally different place once we entered...

All brightened up and packed with tourist from all over...

Assemble Seoul Garden during the popular days when i was a teen...

And the cafe session after exposed by the hot sun...
Plus factor: The cosy ambience and nice setting caught our attention...

Back to business...

The trip can never be complete without all the historical visits...

The Notre Dame Cathedral:

Fingerprints the French left in the city of Saigon...

There's just a Magical feeling to it with it's coloniel feel mixing with viet flair...

Central Post Office:

Situated just beside the Cathedral...
Even if you are not sending anything, you have to visit it...

Gigantic overall with a history backing...

Funny shot:

War Museum:

Basically, you can sum up viet being a "war" place...

Not a dangerous place to be, more of one that values its past...

An educational hub for the other generations...

And you can judge by that with the number of museums available...

Cu Chi Tunnel:

Just put it this way, the landmark of the viets...

Nothing can beat it...

Not even the Americans...

First off...

We learnt about how clever and crafty the viet soldiers can be...

Digging tunnels and forseeing war was hereabout...

And then living in it is a totally different story...

Tried...

And almost stucked...

Saw one caucasian almost got stucked in the process...

Tunnel and tunnel we went...

Even saw bats in it...

We even did a "Blair Witch" project of our own...

Mekong Delta:

One of the largest river in Asia...

Inter-linking between continents, its like a mini maze in water form...

Its also HCM's main source for employment...

River linking to small streams...

From there, we were brought to different farms and productions...

Every stream always bring something exciting...

From bee farm to fruits & coconut candy production...

Snake encounter...

The conical hat'ters...

Living in a world of their own, the people are contented...

Seeing the simplicity of humanhood...

We encountered and met their way of life...

Family photo to end the trip...

What's next fiestamanic???