Saigon Album
Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, has a population of 9 million people.  
These are new hotels.
Unification Hall where the
President of Vietnam works.
The cities main post office.
Ho Chi Minh Museum.
The next two photos are from the
800 foot tall Bitexco Financial
Center.
The bike loads are limitless.
A beautifully decorated city street.
The Opera House
A religious center surrounded
by communist propaganda bill
boards.
Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh
City, had many names throughout
history.
The city was decorated for the
Vietnamese New Year.
There are literally hundreds of
thousands of private businesses.
There are literally hundreds of
thousands of propaganda billboards.
We stopped at a laquer business.
This artisan was using cracked
egg shells to make the pictures
like the one to the right..
Some of the thousands of
propaganda billboards.
Meeting room at Unification Hall.
Joanne finds a comfortable place
to wait for the photographer.
Checking out a soviet tank.
Inside the museum is a mural of the
people welcoming the communists.
The city hall of Saigon.
Parking lot Saigon style.
Our stop for lunch.
Another propaganda billboard.
Inside the cities main post office.
The cities downtown is full of
new buildings.
The white building on the left was
a propaganda victory when it was
photographed in 1973 showing
fleeing Vietnamese using
American helicopters.
The city center of Saigon from the cities tallest building.