Notes on the Geography of Vietnam: HCMC to CanthoField trip! Starting in Ho Chi Minh City, we'll head out to Can Tho, in the middle of the Mekong Delta. Make default image size larger ![]() HCMC traffic. ![]() HCMC outskirts. ![]() Bridge. ![]() Stop! Pay toll. ![]() Alternatively, go shop. ![]() "If you lived here, you'd be home now." ![]() Behold the future. ![]() An alternative paradise. ![]() You can breathe now. ![]() What on earth? It's a Cao Dai or "High Place" church at Tien Giang. The church was founded in Vietnam in 1926. ![]() Countryside must be close at hand. ![]() Park the car and follow the path. ![]() Carefully prepared fields; bananas in the background; no shortage of water. ![]() House. ![]() Cheaper model. ![]() Cemetery. ![]() Stand aside. ![]() On the road again: bridge over the Mekong. ![]() Over the railing. ![]() Lane discipline? What's that? ![]() So much for bridges. It's time for a ferry. ![]() Plenty of traffic. ![]() The river is congested. ![]() So are some of the passengers. ![]() You can't hear the ferry horn, so imagine the ferry pilot cursing this hotshot. ![]() Trouble for ferrymen: a cable-stayed bridge under construction. ![]() Can Tho (or Cantho), fronting on a branch of the river. ![]() Waterfront street. ![]() Lots of new construction. ![]() Street market. ![]() Seafood in abundance. ![]() Fruit, too. ![]() Not much evidence of the French regime, but here's a bit. ![]() And another. ![]() This, too. ![]() Maybe this qualifies if you consider the instruments and teh clothes. The sign in the bell says Clarinet and Drum Club, hired here to escort a funeral cortege. ![]() A clean break with the past. ![]() Modern retail has arrived, too, with this Can Tho shopping center. ![]() Check-out heaven. ![]() Top-shelf whiskey. ![]() We've headed to the edge of town, where the land meets the water and where people live in between. ![]() A barge loaded with brick is unloaded the hard way. ![]() Transshipment. ![]() A building site. ![]() Street scene. ![]() Pedestrian bridge. ![]() First glimpse of open land. ![]() Back in town. Was it what you expected to see? |
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