Country: Vietnam

Vietnam reaches me as heat and motion; Ho Chi Minh City is a place I know by its noise long before its streets.

  • Charcoal sketch of a dense low city along a wide brown river, scooters and markets below, a colonial spire, heat-haze - never been abroad

    Ho Chi Minh City

    Ho Chi Minh City — the old Saigon — a hot riverine city of a million scooters and French-colonial bones, shadowed by a war I grew up watching on the news.

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