I managed to click a couple of pictures in the famous Ben Thanh market before I was shooed off by an irate shopkeeper. For some reason I was not welcome with my camera there. Here stacks of sauces and pickles and all sorts of condiments can be seen. Here on the right, heaps of seafood,...

Doesn’t it look mind boggling just to look at it? This is how electric wires are bunched up all over Vietnam. I have no idea how they maintain it or how anyone can rectify a small mistake in that huge expanse… Here he is now trying to repair something in that mass!

This guy was a mobile singer, with all his equipments including a speaker attached to him! He walked around the lane singing and playing though I didn’t see him spread out a sheet or anything for money.

A visitor rests by a genuine US Army helicopter in the War Remnants Museum. The sights here were truly jarring with real artifacts from the war and a picture gallery. A wax recreation of a prisoner of war. There were some more like these in the museum, but this one was particularly haunting with its...

Similar to our coconut sellers, these guys roam all around carrying these baskets on their shoulders offering their wares to thirsty travellers.

These ‘cyclos’ as they are called is one of the common means of transportation in the city. Mostly for tired foreigners that is. The cyclo drivers exploit the foreigners to the max by asking them for higher fares and by promising them a quick tour of the city. One driver drove me insane by trailing...

A man rests in the shade of his cart loaded with things ranging from plastics to cleanly shaved tender coconuts. I found this sight very similar to our India too except that he had neatly stacked up those coconuts too in his cart! Carts selling street food like our chaat are not an uncommon sight....

My Vietnam trip was in Feb 2009 and I couldn’t update this blog everyday then. But now I thought why not just chronicle it through the numerous miscellaneous photos that I have taken. So let me begin with my first stop in Vietnam, which was Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) or Saigon. This was a...

I absolutely loved the food. Pictured above is one of their staples known as Pho (pronounced as ‘fa’), a noodle soup with vegetables and meat for the non-vegetarians. The leaves that they give alongside are very aromatic and I was seeing them for the first time and the last. A different version of the pho...