Ho Chi Minh City is at the stage where old Saigon meets the emerging modern metropolis that HCMC is about to become. This is also expressed in numerous architectural contrasts, as shown here. It seems that the pale blue background with the modern office complex is just a dead backdrop for the colorful, vivid foreground at the bottom right, with the idiosyncratic house and the tree.

Near Turtle Lake, Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City fine art museum

Night cop

Night life 2

Another view leading to Bitexco tower in HCMC

Ho Chi Minh City fine art museum

黃金蒲桃 @HCMC

Hang Phan market, a traditional market, located in District 4, HCMC, Vietnam

Pug life

Designed by architect Ngô Viét Thu, and a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City. It's also publicly and officially known as the Reunification Convention Hall, or simply Reunification Hall.

HCMC

Independence Palace exterior

Shutter lines

Ho Chi Minh City - around district one

Taken from Thanh Da Island.

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Ho Thi Ky Flower Market, Ho Chi Minh City

The ridiculously dense Ho Chi Minh City from above.

An Dong Market, Cholon area, Ho Chi Minh City. The green atrium.

Turtle Lake, Ho Chi Minh City

Turtle Lake, Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City black and white

Vĩnh Tràng Temple in HCMC Vietnam

Good morning!

Hat shopping at Cho Binh Tay, Ho Chi Minh City

An Dong Market, Cholon area, Ho Chi Minh City.

HCMC

Independence Palace, Ho Chi Monh City.

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This is the area around the new US embassy with plenty of shops restaurants etc. Things are pretty dead here now comparitively speaking. HCMC has a population of roughly 13 Million so its not often you will see things so quiet.

Chua Van Thien, Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon, Vietnam

Back home by a beautifull evening on Saigon river

Cho Ben Thanh (Ben Thanh Market) Ho Chi Minh City

My first photo shot with my new camera, Canon PowerShot S100

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Faes in the crowd at the HCMC airport.

Ho Chi Minh City fine art museum