When I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, I didn’t really know what to expect as I have never been before. It is busy and chaotic, with more mopeds that I think I’ll ever see again in my life! I have read that the city as a whole is lacking in greenery, which I can’t comment on because I have not been over the whole city-just the centre. What I did see in the city centre is plenty of street trees and other plants growing next to walls, etc.

While the whole city seems to thrive on chaos, I found the place oddly good fun because of the chaos-I am someone that can’t stand chaos usually-I would rather stay away. I think that it’s because it’s so different to Sydney with so much to see.

Quite often on my travels to various places, I found plants growing out of the walls and tree roots lifting up the pavers on the footpath. With both, it wasn’t a problem-just watch where you are walking and you’ll be ok!

I took a walk down to the Notre Dame Cathedral and Saigon Central Post Office. While the cathedral was unfortunately covered in scaffolding the post office building wasn’t. It is a very nice building. Out the front of the cathedral was a very nice square area where there were lots of plants, which is why I brought it up. They also had plenty of colourful hibiscus flowers, which are one of my favourites.

Here is the post office. It’s not a plant, of course, but it is a rather nice building.

That is it for some of my wanderings around the Ho Chi Minh City streets. While I was there, I loved it, but four nights in this busy city was certainly enough! It’s people are friendly, there is always a lot going on and I did actually feel safe too, which is good as I was there by myself (although I did keep my wits about me). I do have a few more things to talk about while I was there, which will be coming in the next few days.