I’ll tell you about 8 hours of exploring Ho Chi Minh sometime. City with 4 million motorcycles and hot weather, also keeps many histories of Vietcong soldiers battle with their underground tunnels.

But for a moment I will tell you how my heart was pounding before flying with Viet Jet. Why?

Yes … At that time, Viet Jet became famous because often demonstrate flight safety procedure by flight attendant in bikini (unusual thing for Indonesian like me). But evidently when I waited for it after all passengers on board, the show didn’t happen that night … Passengers were disappointed …hahaha

Several hours before…..

Came back from Cu Chi Tunnel … At 6:27 a.m, I started to bargain a taxi to Tan Son Nhat Airport … For your information, Vietnam’s taxis prefer to price bargaining  than using a taximeter. Therefore, if you don’t want to over budget when you travel there, You must dare to bargain for taxi price there.

Finally, I got deal for 30,000 Vietnam Dong (VND), Taxi drove me and friends to airport in 25 minutes. We were dropped off in front of departure hall.

Departure gate

I arrived in18:48 and my boarding time was 22:00. It was better to got out from airport for looked for cheap dinner outside.

I crossed the Truong Son Road quickly because the “red sign” on traffic light was briefly lit. I thought everything was OK, but actually my friend “The Fat” was defending his sling bag form 2 motorized pickpockets about 15 metres behind me … I knew that his sling bag contained a passport and VND. Luckily two pickpockets gave up and released the bag.

Restaurant owner

Back to airport and waiting for checked-in. I saw some passengers was arguing loudly with ground staff … either of missed or delayed ….

Departure Hall and crowded passengers in front of me.

After checked-in, I stepped to ticket inspection section. Local passengers showed ticket and ID card while tourists show ticket and passport. The inspector closely looked my face when matching my face to my photo in passport. Worried … but just relax, most importantly I followed the procedure.

Entering Gate 16, I waited for Viet Jet plane arrived. Nothing to did, I just idly counted local passengers and observed Vietnamese behavior. Even my friends talked about beautiful Vietnamese who was sitting in front of us…She seemed to understood what we talked about until She smiled at us …

Anggi in Gate..sstt…She is still single !!!

Travel around Singapore, Cambodia and Vietnam with such small bags

Exactly I started to boarding at 22:00. I saw some unusual behavior. Rear passenger legs appear between my seats, some of them still using WhatsApp when air crew gave order to turn off all electronic device, and also some legs got up on the seat when take-off … Funny

I thought the pilot was europeans like I saw on airline website but actually they were both local pilots.

Grateful, my 2 hour flight was smooth without turbulence and landed well at Noi Bai

 

Drizzle and felt cold when got off the plane

I chose night flight so I could sleep at Noi Bai International Airport until morning … I could save lodging budget. My experience of sleeping there, I will tell you later … The fact, Noi Bai was the best protection that night from outside temperature about 8 degrees Celsius.

Thanks Viet Jet and Noi Bai …