travel asia vietnam ho chi minh city around overview
Here are a few glimpses of Ho Chi Minh City at large, as observed by a first-time visitor.
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TRAVEL: 2020
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Skyline as seen approaching the city through the haze, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
Contrasting homes at the edge of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
Nice Lotus fountain gracing the park in front of City Hall, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
Lotus light fixtures in the up-scale tourist part of town next to the City Hall and Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
Government war exhibit, Ho Chi Minh City Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
Featured prominently is the F5 fighter jet flown by "comrade soldier" Nguyen Thanh Trung when bombing Saigon.
Traffic awaits a signal, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
Even though we saw more cars in this city than others, the traffic was still predominately motor bikes, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
We learned that the cyclists with green "Grab" helmets and jackets are riding rental scooters.
It is a bit mysterious to me that, at most times, there were more rental scooters than any others.
I wondered if so many locals rented scooters for the day, or if they had some kind of long term rental.
Law enforcement, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
Electrical power transformers, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020.
In rapidly growing infrastructure where hundreds of power lines usually obscure every landscape and building,
this was one of the cleanest power elements we saw.
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