Saigon Port

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by TravelPod blogger Aniseh titled "5:00am approach to Saigon" Aniseh's travel blog entry: "All week we've been attending pre-port meetings about Vietnam, and at some point at each one, someone bursts into tears. There was the Asian studies Prof who was reading accounts of the warrior women soldiers to lived in 2' diameter tunnels underground for days at a time. There was a visiting lecturer from Vietnam who told of his mother who was separated from her family for 15 years, and a friend of his mother's who saw 8 of her children killed. Brought tears to my eyes each time too. I start by telling you this to let you know how emotional this port stop seems to be. I've been feeling like this is a very special place to visit - I've known people who were here in the Vietnam war (did you know that the vietnamese call it "the American war"?), fighting to keep it from the communist -- which as we know we were foiled in that attempt - it's been a communist country since the 70s. We were due at the port of Ho Chi Minh City at 8am, but one of the older faculty suggested that we wake up instead at 4am. The reason he suggested it, is because of how we get there - the city that used to be called Saigon. Imagine you're tooling your boat/ship in the south Asian Sea, and then all of a sudden, you take a sharp left turn into a river. After traveling northwest on this river for about 4 hours, you're there at Saigon <b>...</b>