Saigon Vietnam love...

The architecture of religious buildings or highly detailed decorative art has elements of Vietnamese, Cham, Khmer ... The combination of structural, architectural styles, building materials, decorative threads, between the West and East - native and foreign born, making the work in Saigon Vietnam the French have a style of architecture, in particular, is known as the Indochinese architectural style, reflecting the trend of "neo office "of the Western urban architecture during the late 19th - early 20th century in many Asian countries.

As of January 4.2010, the city has 124 works, place the vestige, including: a special national monument (Reunification Palace), 53 national monuments, 70 city-level relics. Systems in landscape relics of an "old Saigon" made "identity Saigon." But now "the identity of Saigon" is dead, by the modern high-rises. Son of Dong Khoi Street is a case like that. This is probably the most popular route and is the oldest of old Saigon Vietnam.
Located in District 1, this path focuses more luxurious hotels, shops, coffee shops, book stores ... has become a cultural destination familiar to several generations of Saigon. Eden Park Corridor with theaters, silk stores, souvenirs, bookstores Spring - Thu, opposite the Opera House is famous Givral coffee shop, but lately it's more famous by the song "Vinh Givral special "- C'est Fini Givral. This song made me remember the romantic drama "Last Summer in Capri" has made the hearts vibrate, but for now it makes more people brimming with tears. A portion of Saigon past no longer exists. Givral and other relics lost, Saigon risk is no longer a city of memories ... I also like people, no one wants to hear "C'est Fini ..." for the cultural heritage left of Saigon.

But Saigon is not only "lost" that has expanded and changed each day. Nhieu Loc and Thi Nghe "well known" black-hour channel is being dredged, embankment, no longer will be the "baby blue channel" flow in the heart of the city. A project on the high road along the canal, with dozens of horizontal bridge will become a "focal point" for the old center of Saigon. District 4 District Khanh Hoi Bridge across the famous "black society" for a while, now the wide streets, spacious homes have popped up.
Nha vast low-lying land of golden coconut candy salty, now eight-lane boulevard between the new urban area Phu My Hung beautiful dream! These village farms the Go Vap, Tan Binh or Hoc Mon, Cu Chi also has a new city. The speed of urbanization in Saigon fairly quickly, the city planning has not kept pace development, and thus avoid confusion, the construction of spontaneous discretion residential development interspersed commercial, industrial ...
Saigon Vietnam now has over 7 million people, mostly people from the country. Through years of hard living, many have understood where I was born to send Me, to send commercial, Saigon is also a day where we can live out their ... If you do too "biased" love for where buried together cut the cord, then our love for Saigon will be fairer, because it is their city, because we also have the Saigon! Saigon better understand, we will identify heavy heart filled with love of the people that outspoken liberal here.
Thirty-five years living in Saigon, Saigon live with, if I may say "my Saigon"? I, as a country. I, as a place for letting me grow up. I, as a passionate romance that quietly faithful all my life ...