Originally Posted by IceTrojan
I hear SGN is less prone to explosions.
I personally won't be going to Bali anytime soon. I'm also a little biased towards SGN. I've been 3 times now in the past year, and I'm looking forward to my next time sometime this summer. The food, the culture, and the exchange rate is what does it for me.
Bali is not nearly as dangerous as you would believe.
And in terms of culture, food and exchange rate, Indonesia can keep up with Vietnam, believe me. And if there's a place that ever needed tourists, it's Bali right now. The local population (95% Hindu) is suffering because a bunch of extremist Muslims from off the island (and in the case of the last bombings, not even from Indonesia but from Malaysia) decided they did not like the idea of planeloads of Westerners exploring the paradise that is Bali.
I visited both Saigon and Bali in September of last year and would not hesitate to go back to either.
But as I stated in my earlier post, it's a matter of what the OP is looking to do.