Top Things to do in Ho Chi Minh City (I'M IN VIETNAM!) | Saigon 2023 🇻🇳

Good morning from the Jade Emperor Pagoda here in Ho Chi Minh City,

and I have to say,

I'm confused. I'm so used to being in Indonesia

and knowing exactly what's going on when it comes to religion and stuff

that I don't really know what's going on here!

Apart from this place being absolutely beautiful,

people seem to be turning up over there and pray that statue,

picking up incense and then bringing it over here

and praying to this pagoda thing here,

and putting the incense in the sand before going inside and pray again,

but I have literally no idea what's going on.

It's weird, like the juxtaposition of this pagoda in the middle of the city,

and there's these link bonsai trees all around everywhere.

I'm gonna go inside now and try not to get in anyone's way while they're praying.

Inside there is absolutely stunning, there were so many Buddha statues

and samurais and... not samurais.

I don't know what they're called, but they're not samurais.

The keepers are doing their job, and believe it or not,

this is actually the first ever pagoda or buddhist temple I've ever been to in my life,

besides one really random reclining Buddha in Indonesia, which...

is so strange.

So the next place I'm going to is actually only a 15-minute walk away,

and if you've lived in Bali or Indonesia, you know that walking isn't really a thing,

so I'm gonna take a 15-minute stroll,

probably the longest walk I've done in almost a year.

I'm gonna enjoy it.

So after about 20 minutes of walking and filming,

there are a few things I've noticed about Vietnam.

The traffic basically works the same as it does in Indonesia.

You just gotta cross the road, put your hand up if you need to, and they'll stop.

They also love riding on the path. Check this out.

At this point, the path is just the extension of the road.

And people also wear this half helmet thing.

They're like glorified bicycle helmets.

There's hardly any helmets that actually cover people's heads.

I'm on the sidewalk, but I feel like I'm in the middle of the road at the moment.

So behind me here is one of the... I think there's a few pink churches here in Vietnam.

If you didn't know, Vietnam was actually colonized by the French for quite a long period of time

in the 1800s to the early 1900s,