Indochina 2009

Photos by Adam Jones

These photos were taken during two months in Indochina
(Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) from May to July 2009.

Photo Gallery 56: Vietnam - Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)

We reached Saigon (everybody still calls it Saigon) after a terrifying and bone-crunching
16-hour overnight bus ride down Highway 1 from Quang Ngai, a distance of about 850 km. I took
Griselda to the airport for her flight back to Mexico, and set about exploring this vibrant, pulsating city
of some six million people.

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The delightful alleyway outside my hotel in Pham Ngu Lao district -- a real slice of Saigon life.

II.

This photo and following: Saigon street scenes and people shots.

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This photo and the next: samples of French colonial architecture in Saigon.

VIII.

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This photo and following, continuing in the next gallery: the War Remnants Museum, which
documents the horrors of the "American War" in a sobering but surprisingly straightforward manner.

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Visitors to the museum; the photo at left is another of Ran Haeberle's images of the
My Lai massacre.

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This photo and the next: victims of malformations caused by US spraying of the Agent Orange herbicide
across huge swaths of South Vietnam.

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