A Walk in Non-Tourist Saigon 🇻🇳 People and Streets

My hostel is in District 1, the most prestigious area in the city, and the most expensive. To be more reasonable about expenses, I often cross Bến Nghé Channel, a littered stagnant river, to enter District 4. Not far but prices may be noticeably lower. People are not used to travelers with a photo camera there so it's more fun to photograph them.

A century or so ago, that area wasn't even considered part of the city so, no surprise, there are no beautiful colonial buildings there, only generic four-or-so-floor townhouses and newly-built high-rise buildings. (I will show some more houses below, don't want to overfill the beginning of the post with architecture.)

Beef pho ($2) is amazing, I regularly visit them (Phở Trang Lê Quốc Hưng on the map). And then a coffee ($1) with a glass of iced green tea for free at Cafe MUỐI SaiGon:

That's not ZARA for $200, just regular gardening rubber boots for everyday use like shopping or running over foreigners.

Full of energy (or better to say high on coffee?), I headed for the search of interesting scenes and people. And soon, someone told me: "My name is Win". I looked at her and her bizarre vehicle and commented: "Great name for a lottery seller". She nodded satisfied with the fact I caught the word game.

I asked her for a photo, and we parted smiling at each other.

I loved how these guys were sitting and I was amazed when one of them asked me to photographed them as if he could see them with my eyes.

I couldn't help playing a paparazzi there and rushed to that cart like a vulture (saying one "sorry" though):

Hardships of being the captain. Another form of hardship:

Shopping with the family.

When you're the only person in the world who knows that the best sleep is one with a finger in your nose and a dog under the lounger. Best cosmic energy can be achieved in this way.