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| dinning street side - always ask for the table with the view |
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| Commercial dish washer Sai Gon style |
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| we got wires |
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| new greenery 23-9 park |
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| street side cafe |
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| street side market |
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| recycling Sai Gon style |
When visiting Sai Gon get out on the street and you'll be richly rewarded. Yup, noisy, crowded, crazy but alway interesting.
Oh ya and safe, though you'll hear Vietnamese talk about motorbike cowboys who race by stealing purses, jewelry, cameras and phones off of unsuspecting pedestrians. Though keep in mind this is a very large city with a population of over 11 million and their are bound to be a few bad apples mangoes. However, after 14 years of wandering the city at all times day and night I've never had a first hand experience with this. Though just as a general rule in Sai Gon or wherever a body should always stay aware of what's going on around them and take appropriate precautions to stay out of harms way and safeguard their valuables.
All these photos were taken in District 1 of Sai Gon and it's flat and so easily walkable.
I offer this as an additional tip - make sure when you leave your hotel you pick up a hotel name card (business card) so then you can walk around until yourself hopelessly lost, or exhausted grab a motorbike taxi or a car type taxi and show them the name card, ask how much and you're off.
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| burning effigies on a street corner |
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| Notre Dame Cathedral |
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| Peoples Committee Building |
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| get your motor running Le Loi Street in front of Saigon Center |
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| motorbike show room |
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| Sai Gon's got Starbucks |
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| emerging fire hydrant |
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| watermelon carver |
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