Archives for Saturday, May 15, 2010

VietnamNet Bridge has a good photo gallery of a bird's eye view of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).  As you can tell, Saigon is developing and growing quite fast.  Parts of the city are looking more and more Western by the day.  In 5-10 years, you will not even recognize the historical Saigon (District 1).  Below are some shots of Saigon: View more pictures here -> … [Read more...] about Great photo shots of Saigon (HCMC)

As this article suggests, Saigonese distressed by heat wave, this week has been one of the hottest I experienced in Vietnam.  For me, I noticed that I keep my air conditioner on most of the time hovering around 25 C (78 F).  That is a nice and cool temperature but my air conditioner struggles to keep it at that temperature during the day.  At night, I can get it down to 23 C … [Read more...] about Hot in Saigon