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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...
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