#ho chi minh city
Remembering Vietnam
January 27, 2020
When I opened my eyes a few days ago, sometime between 6:30 and 7am, the first person I saw was my wife, laying next to me with our dog nestled between us. Outside our bedroom window, I couldn’t separate the giant pine tree that usually sways its bathrobe-wide arms from the dark winter morning sky. “Can you believe a year ago today we were in Vietnam?” she asked. I could not. Wearing shorts in January, swimming in rooftop pools, riding on the back of Vespas through Ho Chi Minh City, and eating steaming bowls of pho in loud markets a few stalls away from women selling pig snouts and other innards felt like just weeks ago, not a year gone by. I thought about that trip, our delayed Honeymoon adventure, for the rest of the day. Here are some of my favorite shots from our two weeks exploring Vietnam together.
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Rosy trumpet flowers in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Credit to Nguyễn May.
Rosy trumpet tree in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Credit to Nguyễn May.
La pauvreté est un état dont il me semble impossible de se remettre ; elle laisse des stigmates qui jamais ne s'effacent et peut induire des conduites aberrantes.
Anne Bragance
D'un pas tranquille (2007)
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Après deux ans de fermeture, le Vietnam a rouvert ses portes, le pays devient ainsi la plus récente destination d’Asie à assouplir ses règles liées à la pandémie.C’est peu de dire que l’ambiance à Saigon n’est plus la même. Le centre a perdu son énergie, moins de commerces, moins de restaurants, il faudra du temps avant de retrouver un semblant « d’avant ».
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La seule manière de supporter revers après revers est d'aimer l'idée même de revers. Si on y parvient, plus de surprises: on est supérieur à tout ce qui arrive, on est une victime invincible.
Emil Michel Cioran De l'inconvénient d'être né
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Some of my favourite houses in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Sa Dec (bottom).
Vietnam, 2019.
© Jantine Broek
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SonHuong Medical Office & Warehouse |Ta’d.atelier
Location: Saigon, Vietnam
Learn More: afasiaarchzine.com
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