Step 6: Attempting to buy motorbikes in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), Vietnam

After a few days at the beach I continued my trip and went into Vietnam, to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). I really liked the city although I had quiet some bad luck there cause my phone got robbed on the way back from a soup kitchen. Still the city is great and has a lot of history to offer with the War Reminiscent Museum, that shows the history of the Vietnam War and what it left the country with, and the Chu Chi Tunnels where the Vietcong were hiding out from the American GI's during the Vietnam war.

Additionally the city has some great bars and although it was far out of my budget the Heliport-Skybar high up on the Bitex Tower was one of the coolest bars I have ever seen the sunset in, plus they had a life jazz band and all sort of fancy things that I normally never see in the budget hostels and bars I go too.
A lot of people buy motorbikes in either, Saigon or Hanoi and drive the distance between those cities before selling the bike in the opposite city again without even loosing much money except of fuel costs.
Olli, a guy from Norway I met one evening in Saigon had the same plan so we together spend a morning locking for a good deal.
In the end it turned out that Olli's Visa would run out earlier than he thought so time was to short for the trip. So we decided to to the trip like the majority does, by bus.

Display of a prison cell of one of the many prisons that both sides had for the other or anybody who would
speak about the government

Saigon just at dawn

The Head-Quaters of the Vietcong Leaders, also underground with traps in every corner

The picture was taken before I entered the museum, after leaving I just felt disgusted of the whole war-machinery that was
laying around outside

The Effects of Agent Orange

Bomb-craters where soon transformed to fish-ponds, shortly after the war

Especially the dioxin in the Agent Orange (the most poisonous chemical known to mankind) lead to miscarriages and disfigurement of babies

Inside the Chu CHi Tunnels

They had everything they needed to withstand the Americans