Sunday, November 10, 2013

A look at Saigon with photos












One of the questions I'm most often asked is "when I visit Saigon - what attractions "are must see's"   My reply is that the must see's is the daily life of the city and the daily life of the Vietnamese people. Grab yourself a street corner and watch what goes on around you, get bored take a walk, hire a cyclo or a motorbike to drive you around.   Though, if you go for a cyclo or a motorbike make sure you negotiate a price before mounting up.  My self I like walking but carry a business card from the place I'm staying and when I tire or get hopelessly lost I grab a taxi or a motorbike and hire them to take me to the address on the card.

Whatever, take your time and do a lot of gawking, Saigon is like unfolding an onion, it's multi-layers of things that some times are not what they seem or there's more to it than you thought.  I still walk down street I thought I knew and make new discoveries.

The following photos and some examples.  

Note:  click on an image to expand it and at the bottom you will thumbnails of the photos - 






streetside mechanics
Banana motorbiking

What a smile

Drive- in fruit market

Fresh fruit snacks on a roll


hem - Pham Nhu Lao backpackers area



Vietnamese girls bedecked in traditional ao dai's

quickly disappearing French colonial architecture  

cyclo mounted tourist




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 vendor, peddling her wares 









               
coconuts 
low tech alley eatery - specializing in - you may have guessed it eggs