My Malaysia: Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Viet Nam December 5-8, 2008 Part I

We flew Air Asia from Kuala Lumpur to HCMC to spend a long weekend at the Renaissance Hotel, right beside the Saigon River, with our Canadian FPG friends in Kuantan, Nancy, Gerry, Terry and Eoin. Our host in HCMC was Ernie who used to work with Pat, Gerry and Terry at P&G in Hamilton. It was a treat to get away from the heat and humidity of Malaysia for a few days and enjoy the pre-Christmas decorations to the north! As a souvenir of our trip, Gerry bought us all the book, Bikes of Burden by Hans Kemp, which shows pictures of the Vietnamese transporting all sorts of interesting things/animals/people on their motorbikes. Below is a sampling of city life with some of my own (possible) additions to the book!