The War Remnants Museum Saigon, in my book, takes the number 1 spot in Saigon tourist attractions. If anything else, war images and in this case Vietnam War pictures, are not something you’ll come across everyday. When you talk about Vietnam, the first few words that roll out of your tongue have to be conical hats, Halong Bay and the Vietnam War. And the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon, will be the best place to see the Vietnam War pictures, albeit via explicit images…

Vietnam pictures taken at the Ben Thanh Market. These images are taken from a time lapse video I did which I titled ‘Ben Thanh Market Montage’…

In this picture you can see a couple ladies who were sitting behind us have some coffee and cigarettes. They were watching us, talking to us a little bit too. I just love these two ladies for the styles they represent. The one in the foreground who is smoking is wearing her pajamas which a lot of Vietnamese women do because of the heat; it’s comfortable wearing loose clothing that breathes. The woman in the background is really pretty and is really elegant, looking classy. Both came to the same cafe to sit and people watch. I snuck this picture of them by putting the camera on the table and turning off all sounds and flash. They had no idea I took this picture…

The best part about visiting the Notre Dame Cathedral Saigon is that you can ‘kill 3 birds with 1 stone’, with the Saigon Post Office next to it and the Reunification just 400m away. Anyway, back to the Notre Dame Cathedral Saigon…

When you talk about Vietnam, the first few words that roll out of your tongue have to be conical hats, Halong Bay and the Vietnam War. And the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon, will be the best place to see the Vietnam War, albeit via explicit images. The War Remnants Museum is actually just behind the Reunification Palace. Still, here’s how to get to the War Remnants Museum…

Hal: When I hear the word, “village,” I generally think of a small community of houses built in a rural locale, surrounded by farms and all the trappings of a pastoral life. And when I hear the phrase, “silk-weaving village,” I imagine a tiny hamlet wherein old women tend to small wooden looms, following local traditions handed down for generations. So these were the images I had in mind when a friend suggested we visit Van Phuc, a local Vietnamese silk-weaving “village,” and center of Vietnamese sericulture for nearly two thousand years…

Saigon Post Office, one of Vietnam tourists favourite travel site in Ho Chi Minh City, was designed and constructed by the famous architect Gustave Eiffel, the fellow who also built the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. Built between 1886 and 1891, Saigon Post Office is a functioning and also the largest post office in Vietnam and worth visiting just for its architecture.

Went to Illy at 38 Ly Tu Trong Street, District 1 (HCMC, Saigon) for a business meeting and returned with this very brief personal review of Illy Vietnam…

See how people in Vietnam work high and outside a building with a safety harness

Vietnam720: Cathy from GastronomyBlog.com is an established food writer with at least 34 publications under her belt (from what I can count on her site) and at least 31 press articles written on her (from what I can count on her site). This cute Vietnamese girl has even appeared on BBC before. She is currently based in Los Angeles but during her one year trip back home to Vietnam, she had written many blogs on Vietnamese food from the south all the way to North Vietnam. Since I already have quite a bit on Vietnamese food from South Vietnam on Vietnam720, I’m highlighting Cathy’s blogs on Hanoi food which you can find here at ‘Eating in Hanoi 01′ and ‘Eating in Hanoi 02′.