A person standing beside me said this is an image of Ho Chi Minh when he was a young revolutionary.Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is often called “Saigon” and many companies located there use the city name “Saigon”crossing the river with motorcycles on boardone of the ferries along the river in HCM (Ho Chi Minh city)the cathedral under renovationwhat is a prosperous city without a Rolls Royce dealership? the salespeople wear white gloves. We walked in with t-shirts and shorts, the “unpretentious rich”. go to a shopping mall to buy a Bentleybeautiful old architecturethe rich and the poorthe city is named after him, of course, not me.the ferry is nice and cleanbands on the walking street at night until about 11portable restaurants love these kid’s chairs for customersthese enforcers go around on these automatic rollers to make sure people are adhering to the rulesat the restaurant a little wrapped up snack sitting next to a wet tissue, all extra fees, of course.the walking street in HCM is long and very organizedbig buildings in HCMHCM city hall. Old French architecturethe palacei was invited to the palace (provided I pay a small fee)a US helicopter left at the palacethe president’s bed in the palace bunkerold communication equipment in the palace where the President of South Vietnam surrendered to the North’s army, the bunker being one of the main attractions of the palace.the president’s carduring the war you can see how extensive the North Vietnamese presence was in Laos. The Ho Chi Minh trail was half the country.motorcycle parking lot, they dominate the roads, good for Yamaha and Honda and for the electric bikes made by VinFast (vietnamese company)reporters during the war used to come here for talking and drinks. the bar now is completely unimpressive and loud music makes it uncomfortable.a view from the topa production shoot on the streetanother shoot at the opera housethe tallest building in townVung Tau island near HCM by fast boat. Not really recommendable.nice walkways along beaches in Vietnam but the beaches are not as nice as in Thailand.
