Archived post from our February 2007 trip
Hi there, it's Ilene writing from HCMC--
A few pix from the last few days out and around HCMC. Robert should be zipping his suitcase shut about now and getting ready to start his journey. Hopefully he can do a more thorough and entertaining job than me with this blog.
The pictures may or may not do a good job of showing the sprawl and the differences in the different parts of HCMC--tidy tourist areas versus outlying neighborhoods.
I have to say I undertand the motorbiking. Smog and exhaust choked as it is, it's fun. It's a really different way of traveling versus being contained in separate cars. Masks cut the gritty particles a bit. On a bridge last night we were bouncing along with a guy transporting a queen sized mattress on a cyclo, two guys carrying long metal tubes bouncing up and down, families of 4--mom holding an infant on the back, toddler up on dad's lap next to the handlebars. Car seats?
