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Riverside Market, Mekong Delta

The loading dock pictured here serves a riverside market in the small city of Cái Bè, which is about 100 km to the southwest of Saigon and 85 km from where the Mekong spills into the East Sea. Fruits and vegetables are grown on one side of the river and ferried to urban markets on the other side. These workers are handling large baskets of rambutan fruit.

Approaching Storm, Da Nang, Vietnam

Bananas, Mekong Delta, Vietnam

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.

Tall Ships, Saigon

There are a couple of shops near the Saigon Opera House selling sailing ship models. There may be others elsewhere in the city. I don’t know where the models are made or by whom, but they are quite impressive.

Market Street, Saigon

Saigon Botanical Garden & Zoo

Rain Squalls, Da Nang Bay

Sun & Clouds, Da Nang, Vietnam

When I pulled away from my apartment at around 5:00 in the afternoon yesterday, the light did not look too promising. How wrong I was. This was taken from the Cầu Thuận Phước, the big bridge at the mouth of the Han River where it empties into Da Nang Bay. The sun was going down over the Hai Van Pass that divides Da Nang from Hue and other points north. Quite a few people were stopped taking photos. You slow down in the middle of the bridge, pull your motorbike to the side of the road, get off, step up to the railing, take the photos and then go. Actually, I was headed the wrong way for shooting this view and had to flip a u-turn in the middle of the bridge to get at the photo op. When in Rome… Anyway, the bridge has a sidewalk on both sides of the road and the railings are not too high. It was squalling intermittently and the rain brought a significant drop in temperature to go with the great clouds and light.