Saigon Vietnam - urban ruins

So with over 300 years of Saigon Vietnam - Gia Dinh established administration, compared with more than 3000 years this area of ​​human traces in the oldest, 35 years I lived in Saigon just blinked! I suddenly realized that never once seemed to say love with this city.
Many people have loved, loved Saigon. Maybe this is the place to bury them together cut the cord, where they have to leave home to earn a living and are widely shared Saigon. Maybe a place to leave her first love, where they abandoned the hope one day that always come back ... But for many people, love Saigon Vietnam is hard to express in words, not reasonable for Saigon as a beautiful girl gentle, feminine affection puts people to then say with his love? Saigon offers the look of modern girls, dynamic and simple, a beautiful but shy people often want to speak love ... Many years ago I, too, absorbed remember our beautiful city to any of childhood, so that one day I realized my revenues fell in love with Saigon when unknown ...

Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon. Photo: Huy Giang

My impression is first met bustling Saigon River water filled with large vessels lying close to the Nguyen Hue Boulevard. Wandering the streets are always crowded, towering green trees in the sunshine, sunny girls long dress and white bicycle flying in the wind. The luxury villa is hidden behind a barrier of trees, the bright lights temple lime color ...
Compared with Hanoi or Hue, Saigon seems like a lack of deposition of "soul mountain river thousands of years", because this is a European-style modern city - the United States. But  Saigon Vietnam offers a unique shape urban south "wharf boat". Originally, the assumptions used and the angle of the Saigon River Thi Nghe River. Extending a few kilometers south-west, is Cholon, the majority of the U.S., located on the junction of canals crisscrossed each other, connected by canals of the Saigon River, also known as Tau Hu, Ben Nghe canal. Referring to Saigon, we remember right to market two famous Ben Thanh Market - river towns the most important trade of the Gia Dinh and Cholon - the largest trading hub in Cochin.
Phase formation Ben Nghe - Saigon is a period of rapid melting pot of people from many parts of the community here. The process of reclaiming up incubation, production development ..., save the people have maintained the traditions, customs, beliefs and religions of the new homeland in the land. Houses, pagodas, temples and shrines, clubs ... built in about 300 years to show the diversity and convergence of the cultural communities and spiritual activities of the Vietnamese, the Hoa, Khmer, Cham.
Like many Southeast Asian countries, colonial architecture late 19th century the first half of the twentieth century has left Saigon many architectural heritage of high artistic value. The path taken across the Saigon River divides the city as a standard in the boxes. On the main street offices, business district, hotels, restaurants ... The lane is the residence of world public servants, employees, the beautiful villa, then the rows of terraced houses, deeper in the canyon the neighbors 'home leaves' of employees ... Every few squares have a church-centered spiritual activities. We can see three vertices of the triangle is the center of the city three churches: Our Lady - Tan Dinh District - Si.