Tao Đàn Park, Saigon, Vietnam
Tag: Ho Chi Minh City
After Breakfast, Saigon, Vietnam
It’s 10 in the morning and this woman is finished serving breakfast. She has packed up her tiny noodle shop on wheels and is getting ready to head home.
Bui Vien at Dusk, Saigon
Sweeping the Park, Saigon
Pagoda Garden, Saigon
Ramen, Japan Town, Saigon
Hoang Van Thu Park in the Morning, Saigon
Street Side Morning, Saigon
Tan Dinh Church, Saigon
Nhà Thờ Tân Định is a Roman Catholic church in Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon. A well-known local landmark, the church was built about 150 years ago when southern Vietnam was a French colony called Cochinchina, a part of French Indochina. I have no idea what the pink color is about. Da Nang’s Roman Catholic cathedral is also a garish pink.
Saigon Central Post Office
Bưu điện Trung tâm Sài Gòn: A relic of the French colonial period, the old Central Post Office is a landmark in downtown Saigon, next to the Roman Catholic Notre Dame Basilica. Completed in 1891, I don’t know when the building got its yellow face lift. It is definitely not yellow in older photos.