A beautiful building and flowers in contrast to the Sai Gon river.Sunday, Feb. 20
What a pleasure to have the alarm silent. We arise at our leisure and have breakfast with a lovely young couple, both left Vietnam as children and have had a good life in Australia. She still has relatives here, so will do some volunteer work during their holiday.
After taxiing to our new, somewha
t shabbier hotel, we spend the afternoon just wandering the upscale part of the city centre. It is too far from the action for us. We walk by the river. I’m amazed at the speed of the current in the Sai Gon river. The streets are quite empty in these areas, but the roads and streets by where we are seem even busier than other days. I manage to get some much needed lipstick at the market.
This lady is selling refreshments.
An iconic building in the new business/hotel area.
What a pleasure to have the alarm silent. We arise at our leisure and have breakfast with a lovely young couple, both left Vietnam as children and have had a good life in Australia. She still has relatives here, so will do some volunteer work during their holiday.
After taxiing to our new, somewha
t shabbier hotel, we spend the afternoon just wandering the upscale part of the city centre. It is too far from the action for us. We walk by the river. I’m amazed at the speed of the current in the Sai Gon river. The streets are quite empty in these areas, but the roads and streets by where we are seem even busier than other days. I manage to get some much needed lipstick at the market.
This lady is selling refreshments.
An iconic building in the new business/hotel area.
A normal parking lot!
A game of shirts on/shirts off soccer. In the morning hundreds of people are exercising, running, playing badminton with no net. The Vietnamese are a very active lot.
A game of shirts on/shirts off soccer. In the morning hundreds of people are exercising, running, playing badminton with no net. The Vietnamese are a very active lot.
We return for an early supper to the Beautiful Saigon Hotel Restaurant and, after impeccable service and a scrumptious meal we say goodbye to Nguyen. We get a picture of the ingratiating smile. Early to bed as the alarm will go off in the morning at 5:45. Yuk.
Wouldn't you love to wrap him up and take him home? He works seven days a week, from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m., and he always has a smile.
Wouldn't you love to wrap him up and take him home? He works seven days a week, from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m., and he always has a smile.
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