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In case you're wondering, Tan Son Nhat Airport is not too far from HCMC. It cost about USD5 by taxi to get to town . Upon arrival, you'll also be given these things:
1)Arrival/departure card - white/blue duplicate form (complete this on the plane, the immigration officer will take the white copy and return the stamped blue copy to you) - when you check into hotels they will want to see the blue form.
2)Baggage declaration - white/yellow duplicate form (complete this on the plane and hand to the custom's officers who will stamp it and return the yellow copy to you). If you are bringing any CDs or video tapes you must declare them and may have to hand them over for 3 - 4 days "cultural approval"
3)Visa application - you should already have a copy of your visa application form (white A4 size with your photo on the top right hand corner). If for some reason the travel agent has not returned this to you, take another copy from the airline staff and complete it. Hand the form to the immigration officer with the photo attached, who will keep it and stamp your passport. Note that the visa application is only needed if this is your first visit on a new visa. For subsequent arrivals on the same visa, you do not need to complete the application form.
4)Health declaration - yellow form. You may not receive this as it is not given out consistently. Fill it in and have it in your hand as you enter the immigration hall. If someone asks for it, hand it over. However, they rarely ask for it and while you are rummaging around for it, everyone else is rushing ahead for the immigration queues. Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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Unless you're planning to stay here forever, prepare 12USD to get out of HCMC. Yes, they will also accept the local currency (dong) if you run out of those greenbacks.
It makes sense to count all those dongs before you make your way to the customs, espcially if you're dong-challenged like me. An angry queue of people were behind me as I dug up those dongs. Thank God they were cursing in a foreign tongue. Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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It's a breeze going to Ho Chi Minh from Singapore. You can choose from among these direct flights. Here's the prices when it doesn't coincide with a school or public holiday..
1)Garuda Airlines ( Indonesian ) - Daily flights@11am, $265
2)Vietnam Airlines - $290
3)Lionair (Indonesian ) - $290
4)Singapore Airlines - $450
Click http://www.zuji.com.sg to book your air tickets if you're Singaporean. Leave a Comment
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In the Pha Ngu Lao area you will find hundreds of backpackers travel agencies offering hop on- hop off buses for other cities, local tours to Mekong Delta, CuChi Tunnels?
I guess at the end they are all the same, but the one I tried was this ?Happy Tours? (139 Bui Vien St, near the Post Office. Tel: 848 8379567). They are open till late, and offer a free breakfast for every tour you buy. They also have a minib?s hop on-off that goes all the way along the coast up to Hanoi for 20 USD. Leave a Comment
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A young, efficient and knowledheable travel team: they will help with everything, if you want to go by bus to Phnom Penh (at only USD 5 single), a 2-day Mekong Delta Tour (USD 15), open a/c tourist bus daily to Hue (USD 14) and Hanoi (USD 21), hotel reservations or book or with a flight ticket. Price NOV-04). Most honest agent I found. Leave a Comment
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By Air : Most routes that travel into Vietnam are from K.L., Bangkok, Singapore, Taipei and Manila. Vietnam Airlines (VN) operates a regular service between Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang. The international airport, Tan Son Nhat (SGN) is around 7kms from Ho Chi Minh City. Buses and a few taxis are available.
By Rail : HCMC is the main connecting point for trains. The Thong Nhat express connects the city to Hanoi, stopping at various towns along the way taking anywhere from 32 to 42 hours.
By Bus: Services are poor and overcrowded.
By Taxi : Taxi's are available in Saigon, make sure they have a meter before you start off. Cyclos or Trishaws are a great way to get around the city area. Ask the hotel what an approximate cost of the trip should be.
By Bus : There are local bus services in Ho Chi Minh City which also has a tramway. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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To Vietnam you can go by air from Thailand, Singapore, Hong-Kong, Cambodia and other. you Just have to plane your trip. By train from Thailand Malaysia and Cambodia. I can't to adwise to select this way, because in 1996 it was not possible to get a Chinise or Malesian visa for israeli people. I selected the easier and, i think, not so expensive way. The price of flight ticket from Singapore was about 110$ (very sheap if i compare with prices in Israel).
The best way to travel in Vietnam is travel bus. There are a lot of tourist centers or restaurants, where you by planed trip. You start the trip with little bus or minivan and you can continue it on boat. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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Though not the most dangerous, HCM has (or had, in 1998 at least) the most.. interestingly chaotic traffic of all the places I've been to. This city still has more bicycles and small motorcycles than cars. Wide boulevards + bikes for 8 million people = chaos. The streams of bikes go every which way - looks as though it doesn't matter on which side of the street one drives. For the most part not life-threatening, but certainly interesting. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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Of course, by plain.
Road network is poor and few chanches from China and Thailand via Cambodia are reachable.
If you have a boatm try to enter via Mekong river and turn right to get Saigon river Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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I flew to Saigon from Kuala Lumpur on Malaysian Airlines.
In Saigon, the standard form of transportation is the cyclo (bicycle rickshaw). Even the pigs go this way... Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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