Well the first morning involved wandering around HCMC and visiting the tourist sights within District 1. I decided to walk everywhere as I found previously this is the best way to see the hustle and bustle of places like this – and being a real part of the City life!
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- Fu Lu Shou Gods – Good Fortune (Fu), Prosperity (Lu), and Longevity (Shou)
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- Walking Food Stall
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- Little Cute Dog 🙂
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- Nice Roundable Feature … and the surprisingly roads quiet in this area 🙂
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- The Non La (Coninal Hat)
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- Wow – that’s a nice minature ship!
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- More model ship handiwork! What a great shop!
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- That’s a lot of electricity cables 🙂
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- The outside wall of a school
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- Roadside shop 🙂
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- British Council HCMC Education Office
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- Petrolimex HCMC Office – Nice Office 🙂
I noticed that there were a lot of nice art galleries in the city, in fact some of the artwork looked toooooo nice … I was almost tempted to buy a few pieces for my house – but stop shopped! Well the real reason is that I only had a back-pack, so wasn’t sure how to bring the items back to Singapore 🙂 I walked onto visit the Opera House – which was a nice place indeed, where they were showing the Nutcracker opera…opposite the Opera House was a flag-ship LV store…
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- Arts Shops Galore – Nice Pieces of Art!
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- Ho Chi Minh City Opera House (Showing the Nutcracker)
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- Nice Fountain Display at the end of this path
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- There’s always a LV flagship store in a Large City!
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- Nice Green and Fountain (I think this said “keep off the grass”!)
When I reached the Notre Dame Cathedral – I noticed that there were quite a few Weddings happening around this area – well the photo-shoots to support the wedding 🙂 Located just opposite the Cathedral was the impressive Central Post Office – I can see the French characteristics in the building design.
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- Nice Wedding Photo Pose 🙂
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- Notre Dame Cathedral
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- Preparing for the next photo pose…
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- A wedding journey…I almost walked into the shot 🙂
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- Central Post Office
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- Notre Dame Cathedral
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- Notre Dame Cathedral
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- Notre Dame Cathedral
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- The Back of the Notre Dame Cathedral
I also noticed that there were quite a few art students around the area, painting some of the established buildings in the City Centre… so I took a photo of them! ha!
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- Art Student Hard At Work
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- The Image that the Art Student Are Painting
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- Art Student Hard At Work
There was one shop that looked pretty cute – it was called “Mini You” which basically creates little charactures and minatures models of you 🙂 Well if I find the true love of my life, this would be a place to take her – lol 🙂
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- Cute Miniature Models
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- MiniYou.vn
I continued walking around and then decided to head back to the hostel to freshen up, before heading off for some night-time fun 🙂
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- Tourists and their Non La!
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- Basket anybody?
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- Pet?
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- Park Entrance
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- City Centre Landscape
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- City Centre Landscape
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- Chùa Lâm Tế Temple
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- Church lit up at night