Vietnam, S-S-Saigon

Much time has passed since that Saturday night in Saigon when I got more wasted than I have ever been before - or since. Quite a funny thing happened to me on that particular evening - funny ha-ha, funny peculiar, funny downright shocking if the truth be told.

I'm afraid that's not a story I intend to tell now. Instead, take a look at these pictures if you have a care to, and consider what life must be like in schitzophrenic Saigon - the Communist capital of Vietnam's south. A place where the Yankee dollar is prized above all other things. Where 'politically re-educated' Southern Vietnamese soldiers whisper that America really won the Vietnam war. Where ten year old children, older than their years, roam the streets after dark playing paper, scissors, stone with the tourists for chewing gum, invariably winning and in deadpan voices demanding, "Show me the money."

Uncle Ho

Catholic church

Saigon street scene

Beast

Turtle Power

Guardian

Shrine

Nasty engraving #1

Nasty engraving #2

Nasty engraving #3

Cudgi Tunnel

Guns! Guns! Guns!