Day 4 :
This is our fourth day in HCM . Today in the morning , I organised our own walking tour and the rest of the days is shopping . The list for the walking tour including the Independant Palace , the parks , the Cethadal Church and the post office . For shopping , we will go to Ben Thanh market .
After breakfast , we start to walk to the Independant Palace for our first location . It just 10 min walking distant from our hotel . Since it is still early in the morning , we have a comfortable and peaceful walks . We did not enter the palace , just snap some photos . There are a lot of tourist starts flocking around the place . After taking some picture of the palace , we walk to the parks , This park is very shady since its have a lot of big and tall trees .
later , we proceed to the Cethadal Church and the Post Office . Both building are old building built during the French colonial era . At that area , there are big Diamond departmental store where we do some windows shopping and found out that most of the items sell here are branded . So we do some currency conversion and find out the price a little bit expensive compare to Malaysia . May be the tax charged here are higher for imported goods .
To share our bad experienced .while we walking back to our hotel , a hawker want to sell us the coconuts . so we stop and asked for the price , but suddenly he open the coconut and charged us 150,000VND (RM22) per coconut ... very expensive !, lesson learnt don't buy from the street hawker .... they will stripe you off !!!
At noon we have a rest at the hotel and have a light lunch ... maggi mee and bubur nasi (that we bring from Malaysia ) . Then we left the boys at the hotel . My wife , daughter and me went out for shopping again . This time we proceed to Ben Thanh market to buy some fabrics and clothes . We went to one of the shop and start bargaining , finally we bought a good quality of Vietnam silk with RM46 per piece and cotton cloth for Rm35 per piece. My daughter bought a blouse ( 200,000VND) and a blue jeans ( 250,000VND ) . Both of my wife and daughter were very happy ... they got what they want already !! Then we went back to our hotel after spends more than 1 hour at the market .
At evening , my son and me bought a new extra beg to fill the new things that my wife bought . At night all in the family went out again for a dinner at Champa Muslim restaurant . After that we went to the night market for the last minute shopping @ final shopping since we are leaving tomorrow at 13:25 pm ( flight back to Kuala Lumpur ) . Also finish off all our VND !!!
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| beautiful view the sunshine |
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| the restaurant |
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| the lobby |
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| inside the restaurant |
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| take the drinks |
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| enjoyed breakfast |
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| same goes to me and my wife |
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| a short break before begin our tour |
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| start our tour by walking |
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| so many motorcycles |
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| the vietnam coffee restaurant |
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| the independence palace |
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| lovely couple |
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| with youngest son |
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| the beautiful clean parks |
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| wife and sons |
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| with the eldest |
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| looks very cool |
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| one of the big departmental store in HCM |
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| just marriage ... Vietnamese couple |
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| Cethadal Church ... old building |
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| the post office |
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| the brothers |
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| with the eldest |
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| inside the post office |
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| really beautiful and cleans |
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| bought some souvenier |
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| the telephone booth concept |
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| a modern building beside the post office |
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| second son ... don't want to miss the chance for the memories |
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| happy holidays |
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| the Vietnam Hardrock Cafe |
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| inside Diamond Departmental store |
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| infront of the stall ... Merry Christmas ! |
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| Happy new year 2013 in Vietnamese letters |
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| special photo |
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| boy ... what so funny ? |
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| have a good chance , photo with beloved mother |
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| back to the hotel |
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| walking to the Ben Thanh market again |
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| looking for fabrics section |
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| bought some fabrics .... wife so happy |
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| evening ... bought another beg , son with the sales girl |
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| at 7 pm , walk to Champa Muslim restaurant for dinner |
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| the dining hall ... upstair |
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| 3 action of tired @ bored son without Ipad |
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| 2nd action |
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| 3rd action |
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| finally enjoyed the dinner |
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| then going back to the hotel ... for nice sweet dream |
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