December 2012 Saigon streets

Walking around Saigon's Ben Thanh Ward, Dist. 1 

 




Just add a new wire,
ya, that will fix it.
Poster extolling the evils
of drugs. 



curbside recycling Vietnamese style




 

Ever present street side food vendors

Drive-in fruit market

Always stuff going on



what can be said

 

Pizza to go

Ready to ride, until the white haired guy
with the camera showed up.

fresh sugar cane

Hand pained art, see the artist at work
on the left inside.

and we are out of here 2

We are out of here 1

owner supervised motorbike repair

  OSHA spec. flip flops

You brake em we fix em.
These guys really enjoyed have there photo taken

You dirty them we'll clean em at a
very reasonable price and quickly.

Fresh load of tourists, off to see Vietnam,
by the numbers.

Tourists who broke off from the bus tour
what now?



Police maintaining park rules while having a chat

Park 23-9 rules, on the flip side
in Vietnamese.

Hand and hose watering all day

street side take away

t-shirts



Streets always crammed with cars, buses, trucks, bikes and
what have you.  Even saw an older lady wheeling her self
through rush hour traffic in a chair.
 

Our hero (Doug), I'm outa here.