Saturday in Cholon
A Day in Cholon
My friend, Thi Bay, came up from Cantho (Mekong Delta) to spend the weekend in Ho Chi Minh City. This seemed like the perfect opportunity to see of the tourist attractions of HCMC. Thi Bay’s friend, Elizabeth, joined us for the day and the three of us went around exploring the city.
After breakfast, we decided to drive out to Cholon (district 5) and visit the must sees of that area. Cholon is the bustling Chinese part of HCMC, it also happens to be the place where Kevin was born!
We started at the Quan Am Pagoda which features great carvings and statues made even more beautiful by the constant thick cloud of incense. After admiring the magic of the Pagoda, we made our way through crazy traffic to the big Cholon market. The market has everything one could ever want, well, almost everything. It is no problem getting dry fish, medicinal mushrooms or a “North Face” backpack, but when it comes to simple body lotion, that’s a different story. It turns out that in Vietnam, body lotions are mixed with some suspicious sounding skin whitening chemicals.
We gave up on the lotion search and sat down for a yummy Che!
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