We left via a bus shuttle to the airport at 2pm. Our flight departed at 16:05. It took about 1hr and 45 minutes to arrive at the check-in terminal; you do the math! We were rushed through security checkpoints, given right of way at the passport check and we made our flight, surprisingly with a 7 minute cushion. Still, the airport jog was amusing because it was the typical scene in movies: rushing through cowds, jumping over baby prams (Australian for stroller), just narrowly missing the bags of passengers excited to score a deal at the duty-free shops, all the while being chased by an aiport security guard who thinks you may have skipped a check-point (which would've been true, IF there was a security guard chasing us).
We were served a delicious meal, and an hour after take-off we landed in Saigon. What an intense place. We arrived at 5:30pm, rush hour. So it took an an hour to get to Phan Ngu Lao, in District One of Saigon. It was nuts; there were hundreds of thousands motorbikers all squeezing into one small avenue, we were in a sedan-sized taxi trying to drive through a crowd of motorbikers, then somehow attempting (and succeeding in our attempt) to enter a road which seemed to flow one way and with the pressure and speed of about 50 bikers a seconds, each making wild turns as if driving laws don't exist here......... they don't.
We finally arrived and paid our taxi, booked our hotel and commented on how small our room was, and decided to just drink away our worries; it helped.
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