Thursday, December 5, 2013

First day in Saigon - Ho Chi min City

Today the plan was to start visting Saigon of Ho Chi Min City as it was called after the Americans have left the country. I started in the morning strolling around the park watching dancing lessons before visiting the local market. You can still see the French influence in the architecture. Like on the Museum for arts but the skyscrapers remind you of the modern world. Everywhere Christmas and New Year is a topic already – pretty bizarre at 30 deg C
Still propaganda on  the street
Dancing in the morning in the park
Ben Thanh Market
The Art Museum
Bitexco Financial Tower
Merry Christmas
The National Theater
The former townhall - now Peoples Committee Building
Ho Chi Min in front of the former townhall
The Notre Dame Cathedral
The post office from out and inside
The Jade Emperor Pagoda - one of the most calm places I have seen today
too many turtles in a pond - just too many
The Reunifcation Palace - now independance palace - former place of the prime minister of Southern Vietnam - now a really great place for the architecture of the 60ties
I like the phones especcialy the pink ones - probably used to call .... - think pink
even a movie theater was built in thei buiding
a helipad
and a two story deep bunker  and bomb shelter
And to finish of the day the view from my hotel room


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