Street Life in Saigon 🇻🇳 My 40-Day Adventure Begins

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I have just arranged that: $136 for 40 days at an amazing hostel. $3.4 per night instead of $5 so I've made a good deal. 🤠 Love this hostel: centrally located, with much space in the dorm (and no bed bugs 🤢). Happy a lot to know I can be in peace for so long... Going to focus on photography... Going to be a wandering hermit with a photo camera... Hope it will be a happy time.

That's not my first time in this city. In the 2010s, Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon) was my second home in Southeast Asia after Bangkok. So I know where to take nice shots.

I also plan to research in order to find hidden gems like those railway and canal-side neighborhoods in Bangkok I posted about on Hive.

Street scenes are going to be one of my focuses.

Saigon is a huge center of urban life, so diverse.

Hardships and

dolce vita, Maybachs and socially unprotected people in a socialist country

where the only party is allowed, the communist one.

Saigon has another bright feature: the Vietnamese live on motorbikes; they eat, sleep, and probably create children on them either (I haven’t personally seen that but I guess 😄).

That will be another topic, I mean

taking portraits of people on bikes.

And pets too:

Dogs on motorbikes are so often.

Images of Saigon sometimes sell on photo stocks that's why I will photograph sightseeing places either. And travelers too:

Look at this, I wanted to take a photo unnoticed, but no 😁:

But what lovely people they are; I feel sorry I took an image and passed them saying not a word...

So... My Saigon journey has started, wish me good luck!

More stories from Southeast Asia are ahead! Check out my previous posts on my personal Pinmapple map.

I took these images with a Nikkor 50mm and a Nikkor 70-300mm on a full-frame DSLR Nikon D750 on May 19 and 20, 2024, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

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[borniet]

Lovely series of images!!!
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[x-rain]

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[russia-btc]

Удачи бро! 👍

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🤝 Спасибо!! И всем нам пожелаю роста Хайва поактивней, это бы сказалось положительно и на моей удаче в сайгонском приключении 😄

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Охотно, я любитель посравнивать. )

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[theringmaster]

Wow this is such a a beautiful street zone.... Wow to me this is literally luxury right now... What a neighborhood 😍😍

[x-rain]

Yes, that's a truly amazing nightlife area called Bui Vien Street. 😎

[theringmaster]

Amazing 😍😍😍 nice name too

[sofathana]

Amazing shots! It looks such a vibrant and diverse place, my fingers would hurt from clicking the camera so much 😃

[x-rain]

Agree, pain in fingers is a risk, especially, if you have 40 days here like me. 😄

Thanks! 😊

[sofathana]

👍😆

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