Saigon pictures (Day 3)

No Day 2, because it would've involved me taking pictures of the bathroom, etc. So Day 3, I crawled out of the bed (a mattress in the living room), and walked around a rainy Saigon.

Stephane and me, unboard a cab.

The best taxi company is Mai Linh (they took me to the airport, and my aunt swears by them). They've got free newspapers unboard!

House where my mother grew up in. It was renovated and made into a municipal government office with something to do with transit.

Lotus, and a lot of it.

Ducks or geese (more like geese), in a cage. Yum?

Central Market. With a lot of foreigners (buying) and ethnic Chinese (selling).

Central Post Office, from the colonial era.

Statue and HSBC building in backdrop.

A guillotine, brought by the colonial leaders straight from France, and freely used to instill fear in the local population. Kept at the War Remnants museum, the very graphic and gruesome attraction among Western tourists who haven't already read enough about the Vietnam War.