Day 1
TigerAirways, Budget Terminal Meeting Time: 0515 hr, Departure Time: 0715 hr
School of Information Technology (SIT), 28 students, 1 Lecturer, Ms Elaine Kwok, 1 Tour Guide (from Singapore), Lucy and her assistant, Jessie
Hotel that we stayed: Hoang Hai Long Hotel at District 1
All ready and set to zoommmm Vietnam!
Our tour guide (from Vietnam), Chin
Smiling happily in the bus!
First stop: Wellcome Supermarket
Shopping for our “groceries”!
Followed by our First Lunch
Yammmmmmm Sennnnggggg!!!
Full spread of Delicious Food!
The Malay students enjoying their Halal Food!
Photo-taking outside the Church of Madonna
Second stop: Ho Chi Minh Post Office
The founder of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
Unique Telephone Booth
At the entrance of the History Museum of Vietnam
Listening attentively to our tour guide
The 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam!
During one of the scene of the Water Puppet Show
Fourth stop: War Remnants Museum
Looking at the bullets used during the war
Some of the Agent Orange Victims
First dinner at the Saigon Cruise!
Started Day 2 by having breakfast at the Hotel
First stop: VisingPack Factory, a packaging factory
One of their Heads giving out a talk about their factory
The inside look of the factory
Some of the workers doing their jobs manually
Some of the packages produced by the factory
A group photo outside the factory
Followed by our lunch
After lunch, had an inspirational talk by Mr Henry, owner of the Lion City Restaurant
Next stop: HongBang University, we were greeted warmly by their students upon our arrival
We were seated inside one of their classrooms
Their own runway of their traditional costumes by their students
Ms Elaine giving out a speech after been invited by them
Our students with their students
Ms Elaine with one of their lecturer
Zheng Bin and Thiam Sui(not in the photo) did a presentation on our country, culture and educational system
Playing out their traditional game!
Their little gift to us!
Exchanging of our gifts to them!
Group photo with their students
Shopping at the Night Market!!!!
End of Day 2
Day 3, At the entrance of the Cu Chi Tunnel
Haikal going into one of the small entrance of the Cu Chi Tunnel
Walking through the forest! :p
Posing at one of the vehicle used during the Vietnam - America War
Some of the things left during the war
One of the lethal traps made from things left during the war
Joanna inside the tunnel
Crawling and crawling…
Posing with the army statues
A group photo after our lunch
Next stop: At a Buddhism Orphanage (doing our CIP)
The youngest “resident” at the Orphanage
First activity: Making of animal origami
Folding the animal origami
Second activity: Handmade frame
Printing of their photographs to paste onto their handmade frames
A group photo with the children
Our first and last dessert during the trip!
Getting ready to check out from the hotel
A group photo taken outside our hotel
Last stop of our 4 days trip: Boniva Chocolate Factory
A talk about their chocolate factory
The ingredients used to make the chocolate
The workers shaping the chocolate
One of the workers dripping the chocolate into the containers
Cooling down the chocolates!
Some of the chocolates produced by them
Our students busy choosing their choice of the chocolates!
Busy repacking and getting ready at the Airport, Departure Time: 0245 hr (Vietnam time)
All ready and waiting for the departure time
Photo-taking(1) while waiting for the departure time
Photo-taking(2) while waiting for the departure time
Last group photo before boarding the plane!
