" GÁNH HÀNG RONG " _ Saigon Venders
Starting at Tao Dan Park we follow the road to the intersection Truong Dinh Vo Van Tan, turn over Turtle Lake, round to square the Paris Commune and then swept toward the Reunification Palace ... caught the images Staff birth flexible, full of fun.
You may have lived in Saigon for years, decades or more, but it rarely or not once you miss a day of leisurely walk from street to another street, in the sun Sai Gon and then pulled into the roadside shop to meet a sudden shower. Go "wandering" like, you will encounter a "Saigon on the optical double burden".
Those are the pieces of teeming urban painting colors and sounds excess not express "modern stature" of the city buildings are crowded but living life is often very private, quiet in the heart of Saigon. The thing that we claim to be a "new discovery" of his - can be very "old" with others - is the double burden around was not only for people in the city that became the focus of curiosity foreign tourists roam the streets of Saigon. And more interesting is just around District 1 and District 3 we met nearly 100 people living with the yoke on his shoulders, two baskets or pots and pantry.
Just across the street, Pham Ngoc Thach Street vendors were met by a very young woman, spoke very southern voice. It is sometimes covered his load of plastic wrap carefully to avoid dusty streets. Only in limited space, she was able to just mix the powder with a powder barrel to carry, the coal furnace shell fried bread covered with cardboard boxes.
Earlier burden coming across the finish fried cakes. Anonymous woman in the city of Saigon was waking up very early in a small alley to take District 10, all described gong burden "bakery" to its familiar place his daily starting one day striving to earn a living.
Also on Le Duan, just park Street vendors are of a different woman. Yangzhou fried rice she sold, with foam box to passersby purchase. Street vendors placed her right side of the road, is entered into the roadway. For a moment, she left to shoulder the burden, Thoan feet to a location other crowded.
In Bach Dang Park, where many visitors stop is also the focus of street vendors. The old man and the young girl burden to the area and constantly moving from one point to the other easily, quickly. How to choose a location to facilitate sales to guests, while their feet each day go through countless kilometers on the streets of Saigon.
e Loi street with lots of tourists roam, as well as attractions, people do all sorts of occupations with little capital to survive. They sell coins, old-fashioned cigarette lighters, T-shirts and caps printed fabric flag of Vietnam, and has both a mechanic he sat near the corner of Ben Thanh Market is just to work engraved souvenir for tourists on the items such as cigarette lighters, pens or something that can be carved up new customers also purchased right on Le Loi street.
And of course, the path of Le Loi also bold optical Saigon burden. Tin was 67 years old woman, born in the northern provinces make, said optical instrument has such burdens than eight years and usually hovering around Le Loi Street. Specifically wearing a blue speckled flowers. Specifically diligence flour cakes baked by a stove top put a burden. Baking specific image among his boisterous streets causing curiosity of many visitors was loafing on the busiest streets of Saigon. Besides the fruit of every young woman. Sitting next to her double burden ray, woman chin streets are passed.
Morning, afternoon, early evening and all day sunny or rainy day. Saigon street dotted the optical double burden of every human person from all regions of the country to create its own definition streets. Someone once said that living in Saigon, just take the time to be able to survive. With the pole on the shoulder, sometimes turning his load into a "shop" with little capital poor, the women up and down in my heart that city under the sun and rain hard, because family life.
E.Shillue American writer has written an interesting: "She hawkers carrying on their shoulders a most romantic character in the East - the pole ..." (*). Rural, optical double burden in the bustling city was out of convenience, and a harmonious existence in the urban heart of Saigon
