Saigon is a great hub for travel nationally and inter-nationally. And the best part is the flights are very very inexpensive- and sometimes free! For example,
Old French Map of Saigon (click on the photo to see where our place is located)
AirAsia ran a great promotion last year where they gave away a million free tickets to destinations like Bali, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Siem Reap, Phuket, Jakarta and more interesting places like Yogayakarta. Another great thing about the location is that most of these flights average only an hour and a half from Saigon.
Late last year, H found tickets to Yogyakarta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site full of ancient temples- the tickets were free and we only paid for the tax which was a whopping $25USD per person RT! We’ve also scored tickets to Bangkok for about $40 for a weekend get away. Saigon also has routes direct to Phuket, Paris, Jakarta, Shanghai and Bangkok and its rumored they will open a direct flight to Copenh
agen very soon, which will surely be at a budget rate as all the flights in the region are. Within the country we can get to any of Vietnam’s most beautiful beaches in an hour by flight or
AirAsia.com route map
ferry; the same is true for visiting the country’s many World Heritage Sites.
This week we are headed to Burma aka Myanmar. We’ll take a short hour flight to Bangkok, hit the nightmarket for some excellent Thai food and shopping- then head out the next morning for another hr. flight to Yangon aka Rangoon then spend 9 days celebrating Valentine’s Day, our 5th wedding anniversary and Tet (Lunar & Chinese New Year) in what used to be the wealthiest South East Asian nation.
