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.
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| streetside mechanics |
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| Banana motorbiking |
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| What a smile |
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| Drive- in fruit market |
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| Fresh fruit snacks on a roll |
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| hem - Pham Nhu Lao backpackers area |
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| Vietnamese girls bedecked in traditional ao dai's |
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| quickly disappearing French colonial architecture |
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cyclo mounted tourist
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vendor, peddling her wares
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| coconuts |
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| low tech alley eatery - specializing in - you may have guessed it eggs |
