My day two of walking around the city ended at this famous cafe called Pho 2000...why this place so famous while you will see this actually a humble and ordinary place? Well Bill Clinton ate here...perhaps I was sitting at a chair he used to sit when he was eating this pho hahahaha....but indeed the pho sooo delicioso...so good...
Walking around this city seems like fun yet tiring...and scary as the crazy motorbikes are everywhere and yeap I saw an accident but it seems all just like normal, like it's in their daily basis life of getting hit, fell off and so fort from the motorbike hahahaha....
Last days usually the day you found many great things that you have been looking for on your first days of the journey...such as those cool cafes I read on the blog, books, magazines....and I felt like useless and hopeless as you are running out of time and money to spend :)
Some of the places that I found is L'Apotiquaire, it is the well known french day spa near the Ben Tanh Market...and this place called Princess & The Pea a way of strange way to enjoy the coffee and tea in this such out of nowhere shop house, dark, and you need to take off your shoes if you wanna hang around the place...strangely many people coming and I was like stupid guy asking them for their menu before I realize that you need a company to hang around this place otherwise you will look odd....
Bitter Sweet Coffee Shop...cute and seems like a nice cafe in the corner of this street near again Ben Tanh Market....
Last day in this city, I went to see the War Remnants Museum, a museum dedicated to the bitter of Viet Nam war in the late 50s up to 70s...those pictures speaks zillions of words...all sad, scary, full with hopes...mixed into one...this place such a place for you to learn how stupid it is the war, any war in any way....
What I have learned from this city, if you walk through this city...you need to get lost in some alleys to find this cool places...get surprise by what you found...such as An Bistro, KEP Vietnamese Resto, Amber Room the lounge bar...
Paris Deli, my last stop of this cafe hunting...i like the place only the cheese cake not so good...but I do love the area...so nice and quiet...
Well I almost done really with the city at that afternoon...I really enjoyed walking around the Notre Dame, Opera House, People's Committee Building, Rex Hotel, Hotel Continental Saigon, Presidential Palace...and there was a time when I was just sitting there just under the statue of this Virgin Mary and looked at this grand Notre Dame while you are listening to the choir singing prayers in the mass at this great church...oh so romantic...
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