Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon was our first port of call in Vietnam.
It's an energetic, vibrant city that embraces its traditional and French Colonial past. There is now also a desire to modernise as the younger generations choose careers in education, tourism & finance.
We loved our time in Saigon.
We ate well, completed a cooking class, tried our first Vietnamese coffee, walked our legs off & learnt to cross the road Vietnamese style (more of that later).
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| Tube Buildings |
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| Bitexco Financial Tower |
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| People Committee's Building |
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| Dong Khoi at night |
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| Me Linh Square & statue of Tran Hung Dao |
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| More tube buildings - I loved them! |
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| Central Post Office - repainting. |
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| Opera House - side view |
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| Opera House - front view of this beautiful belle époque building. |
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| Saigon River in the morning |
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| Reunification Palace |
interesting place
ReplyDeleteI grew up with Vietnam in the news every night. Even just the words of Saigon and Vietnam make me feel sad for all the fighting there.
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Thanks for sharing your travel photographs. I would never have seen the tall buildings, and the bustling city of Saigon without you sharing them.
ReplyDeleteBrona, Visiting Vietnam seems so exotic to me. And your Saigon River photo is iconic. Here's Mine
ReplyDeleteGorgeous shots! I really love the night time photos....they look so glorious. Thanks for sharing...and here's MY SATURDAY SNAPSHOT POST
ReplyDeleteYou made me want to go for a bowl of Pho and a glass of ice dripped coffee now. Wonderful pics!
ReplyDeleteVietnam is on my travel wishlist- if I can ever stop going back to Paris... Why are they called tube buildings?
ReplyDeleteDelhi has lots of tube buildings...
ReplyDeleteLove the pics...
Here is my post