This is how a crossing is in HCMC. And you are expected to somehow wriggle yourself through this to reach the other side. Initially I was petrified. Then I learnt to tag along behind the locals who would part the traffic easily like a Red Sea and these bikes would just swarm like fish in...
Clusters of fish being transported for sale in aquarium stores. Nice way to supply them though I feel sad for the poor fish bunched in there in such a humiliating manner 🙁
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...
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...
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...
