SAIGON/HO CHI MINH EN 1 DÍA | VIETNAM #8

Well I'm already in Ho Chi Minh in Saigon and you can tell here that once you leave The humidity is much more noticeable here in the south of Vietnam from the airplane You can still feel the humidity even now in winter but it's not been anything exaggerated And there I arrived at my hotel which is called Hotel Harmony Saigon Hotel & Spa of Four stars and it looks quite good the entrance is very nice and this is the room See how it teaches you that way This is the bed which is super wide meaning of good height but it has more than two Metros well they'really two beds together but well the room is nice Here I am to leave the backpack and stuff they left me here well there's wine and stuff and the What they've told me is that everything in the minibar is free except for the wine that is The wine has to be paid for but okay they've left some drinks here an iced tea and Wait beer water that's free and then also well I'll show you here the The bathroom there's the sink with the little flowers the amenities and here is the shower which is Cabin type quite good and then here another part that they give away for free These well bananas in Vietnam they eat a lot of bananas and all the desserts They carry bananas they love them and then they left me here a bear and I say damn me They left a bear as a gift no I mean it's the official bear here at the hotel but it costs Two dollars five dollars so here it's going to stay and nothing else so it has Very good look it has a sky bar on the rooftop and well it looks pretty good How I love the smell of Napalm in the morning it smells it smells like victory I start a new day here in Saigon in the city of Ho Chi Minh and I start at the park that is located a on the hotel's side which is called Cao Bien Thao or something like that and it is surely one of the few quiet spots throughout the city the city is immensely large fortunately The hotel where I'm staying which I recommend to you is very good you rest very well there it is ear the main tourist spots if you want to call them that I really I'm not that interested in visiting the tourist attractions they don't really matter to me I mean What I want is what interests me most about Ho Chi Minh is to enjoy the city to enjoy it what that chaos that is so often talked about is I have just entered the Palace of Independence Called also the Palace of Reunification which is during is a very important place story of the Vietnam War because as you know during the Vietnam War There was a confrontation between South Vietnam and North Vietnam This palace was The one used by the leader of South Vietnam here is where he exercised power His work and it also has great historical importance because when the War ended In 1975 when tanks from North Vietnam crashed into the city Your tanks are here against the building entrance Those tanks at that moment ended the war Vietnam handing victory to the communists To this day this palace is used as a museum It is a museum-level site for visiting and is occasionally also used for events especially if there is any kind of political act One of the most important events that occurred Here towards the end was when in 1975 also a plane from the North Vietnamese forces a The lieutenant who was infiltrated in the southern forces took his plane and flew over it This area is firing two bombs impacting the top roof of the building from the palace Then what he did was destroy the helicopter that was above the part from the presidency of the government of South Vietnam headed by Nguyen Van Chu the The bomb destroyed part of the ceiling and also damaged part of the main staircase This event marked the United States' decision to withdraw all remaining troops from here In Saigon I'm on the palace roof and from here you can see the palace has damn a lot of There are flies here the palace is shaped like a T and then the bomb that I told you about fell On the roof that the helicopter has this is here meaning that this part of the roof was hit The bomb destroyed it this helicopter is a replica of the one that was there and then fell right there damaging The entire part of the central staircase that is directly below I am now in the bunker The presidential palace built in the 60s and the communication section were built by them Americans and could withstand bombs up to 500 kilograms the hardest part the innermost par The bunker could withstand bombs weighing up to 2 000 kilograms The president's family had to use it During the bombing I told you about that happened in 1975 the whole family went down directly along a path that has a staircase leading down from the president's office directly I am at the Bentan market which is nearby it's very central everything is in the hotel area and It's very good because they come here from everywhere they bring all kinds of vegetables fruits and also topics of Handicrafts clothing in other words you can find anything you want here and it's also quite touristy Second the most touristy markets in the area but it has a lot of them movement it has a lot of life it also has many dining options and it offers you some protectio Because of the humidity you can already feel the humidity and heat here in this part of Vietnam Here is the post office that was used during the late 19th century when it was built by the French when this was a French colony just like the The Cathedral of Notre-Dame has that name and this building was used in the same way As a post office the entire building is mainly used for selling stamps Souvenirs and currency exchange at the museum level because the structure and everything inside it is It remains the same as it was and they have kept a couple offices to be able to send postcards With the same stamps but everything now at a very touristy level it has reached a very high point The street that is called "the Street of Books" or something like that in the translation and is a small alleyway They are called as their name indicates they are all libraries on the sides besides sites To have something to drink and also for selling because there is also what is called book trading and that is then a pretty interesting point that gives it a very nice contras Nice as it is the chaos of the city Another important point in this area is that everything is Super I tell you that Ho Chi Minh is a huge city but if you stay in the The first district where my hotel is located has everything within reach everything is walkable Perfectly so you don't need to hire tours or anything you can do everything you can do everything You're on your own as I told you this area I mentioned is kind of a Berlin Hills Here is the Saigon opera from the late 19th century not in the French colonial style That is why practically all this area is of higher economic level as well as the ones that are Luxury shops and such so everything is more or less from the same era because they built everything then The French at the end of the 19th century also here there is a skyscraper that has a viewing platform it has 258 The metro can be taken and you can go to the 67th floor I think there is a viewing area where you will be able to see Part of the city and initially I'm not going up it's not in my plans but okay what do you have It also has a restaurant and everything that this type of skyscraper usually has including a panoramic view