City life Bright lights dark streets

Saigon is a town made for the neon wilderness. in day light it s better not to see the construction which can be painfull to watch due to the pastel colors and challenging architecture. Staying in the houses also remains a challenge. Houses have due to limited space little ergonomical measures taken for people who actually live in there. Having saved their whole life for their dream house their house looks mostly like the following. Vietnamese houses are tall. Due to the hefty taxes on land , architectures made a plan that houses from the front should have a tall and narrow entrance. this result that the buildings are build in length not in its width. 

 

Having travelled also in the country side it strikingly houses in new built areas are not characterised by the use of space rather by it s again tall structeres and the lack of creativity and abundance of copying the same style over and over again. For the foreseeable future there have been some profond changes in the City district 2 and 7 also known as resp An Phu and Phu My Hung. Both district houses the expat community , one more focussed on a certain then the other. In a way if you just have money then go here and not in the dusty smoggy town. Strinking is that in these places with Disney esque fenced compounds are more bareble to watch then the main city area , once the dawn sets in the city with its lights and teemingly nonstop transport grid is the main attraction in this rather cultar-aestecitical-barbarian city of 10 million inhabitants. 

 

HCMC means business and there fore like art galleries , exhibition,museums and other cultural happenings takes place in Hanoi and HCMC is richer in parties of upcoming designers ,models, VN IDOLS and many other hopefulls or tedious acting expats who do their bits to educate the locals in their illy conceived decadent bourgeois behaviour of sex , drugs and techno

 

Go 2 bar is one of those places which cemented it self as a stayer in the ever changing backpacker district, it s a 24/7 bar so the last pissed tourist expat who leaves at 6 am is greeted by the morning shift who serves some breakfast fare to the newly arrived suckers.. the street in Vietnam are the domain of the frenzy unorganised traffic who dont seem to care if you are well paying tourist ..they only care to be paid by the tourist.

the bar symbolises the spirit of Saigon. Busy , crowded , uncultural, business savy and purposedly relaxing when you leave the bar full of tay  ba lo horny around

 

 

 

surely this is not the real Vietnam ..many accounts have been written about the glasnost of Vietnam being a restrictive country unless a stream of money is ensured to flow in to the country 

 

one of the best is Shadows and Winds of Robert Templer. A former correpondent who merciless wrote about the Doi Moi initiative and the unforeseen results for Vietnam and it s leadership.Achievements have been made however it s unclear whether who are the benefeciaries of this development.