Our first time in VIETNAM! 🇻🇳 Exploring Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) + Cu Chi Tunnels!

Hello from VIETNAM! If you missed our last video, we are spending 6 weeks in this beautiful country and are LOVING it so far! And for our first stop, we spent a few days in Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon. We explored some of its top sights, visited tunnels from the Vietnam War, ate local foods, and more! 🔗Links Our camera + hiking gear: ⌚Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:05 Riding the Saigon Waterbus 02:35 Our first Vietnamese Coffee at Cheo Leo Cafe 04:07 Eating bánh mì from Bánh Mì Hồng Hoa 06:21 Cute puppy break! 06:37 Tao Dan Park 07:12 Visiting the Reunification Palace 08:59 Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral 09:42 Hunting for postcards on Book Street 10:28 The most BEAUTIFUL Post Office ever! 11:48 Our first impressions of Ho Chi Minh City 13:10 Trying Bún thịt nướng from Nguyễn Trung Trực 14:55 Views from the Saigon Skydeck 16:10 Nguyễn Huệ Street at night! 17:52 How we spent a day off camera 18:21 Visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels 24:50 Our first pho in Vietnam! 27:07 War Remnants Museum 28:21 Exploring Ben Thanh Market 📍Locations in this vlog To see everywhere we went in this video, plus a bunch of spots we visited off camera, check out this custom Google Map, which you can download to your phone! NOTE: To download this map, you will want to click the rectangle in the top right corner of the map, which will open it on your Google Maps app. However, this will not automatically populate the map on your phone anytime you have Google Maps open, so to access it again in the future, click “saved“ on the bottom part of the app, then “maps“, and you should be able to see it as a saved map. __________ 📷 See ALL of our gear: 🚐 Our Van Life products: 💻 Follow us on social media! Instagram Facebook: Pinterest: 🌎 See everywhere we have been + view our blogs and travel guides: __________ 👋🏼 About us Hi y’all! We’re Adam, Kathryn, and Kona, an adventurous married couple (+ pup!) living on the road in our self-converted sprinter van! You can often find us driving all around the US and Canada, scoping out the best coffee shops, eating tacos and ice cream (we're a 5+ taco and 2+ scoop household), and enjoying nature. We help travelers spend less time (and stress!) planning their trip and more time enjoying it! Our detailed travel guides, YouTube videos, and travel resources share the must-visit local eats, popular and off the beaten path sights, and tons of tips to make planning your next adventure a whole lot easier. Note: We’ve linked a handful of items so you can see exactly which products we take with us. Full disclosure--if you click on these links and make a purchase, we get a small commission at no extra cost to you. We will only ever recommend products we truly love, actually use during our adventures, and think you can benefit from too!