Welcome to Vietnam!

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Hi,

It appears that the most difficult daily task in Ho Chi Nin City (Saigon) is crossing the street. Much more difficult than doing this in a big city in India. Lots of scooter drivers that drive and drive and do not stop. At the beginning in our pathetic trials to cross the street, local people helped us and showed how to do it: you just cross, the scooter drivers will divert eventually and manage not to override us, somehow...
Second difficult task is the language. Most of the people don't know English. But even when they know, their accent is very difficult to understand. And the other way around: it is very difficult for them to understand our accent. So sometimes I use writing which is very helpful.
After one week in Thailand where no one looked at me, no one called me Madam, no one approached me trying to sell me something, the hassle began again, like in India. Same same but different. For example, here, in HCMC, at every corner, scooter driver or cyclo drivers want to give a ride. One time, when one of them saw my mother he said to me: "mummi tired" and smiled. But as my mother is almost never tired, we kindly refused the offer and continued walking.
As Vietnam was once a Frecnh colony, there is lots of French arcithecture all over the city, lots of stalls selling buggets and, of course, lots of French tourists, maybe missing those old good days.
Everywhere in this city there are drawings for sale (see pictures). Many of them are replicas of well known drawings. De Vinchi (Mona Lisa), Gogan, Buttero, Van Goch are quite popular in HCMC.
The Vietnam war (well, they had many wars, but I am reffering to the war against the Americans) museum is very impressive. Many horrible pictures and evidences on one side. On the other side - drawings painted by children. One thing that was missing in this museum is the story of the war: how it started (probably several versions...), how many years it lasted, etc. Of course that one can read about it in the book but I would expect that this museum shoud display this information.
Conclusion: make love, not war!

Bye, Sharon

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