During my stay here in Ho Chi Minh travelling around I have come across some weird and wonderful things

I am not sure why this woman needs gumboots on to fan the fire

This is just wrong, baby on the bottom right. And it is outside a catholic church, need I say more?

This is how people with disabilities get around on scooters.  I think it is fantastic.

How cute it this, it had been raining and the mother was picking her child up from school.

The thing he is pushing is a speaker and he is singing Karaoke at 8:45am in the morning and it is very very loud.  We don’t know what he is selling but he goes past our office 1-2 times per month.

A beautiful old lady reading her book in the morning.

Another old lady reading her book in the sun.

I went to a Vietnamese Buffet for lunch with the Habitat Crew, it cost 37,000 VND ($2.20 AUD). The food was OK, but this plate made me think I was in a prison.

While we are on the subject of food, here is how you eat french fries in Vietnam and instead of tomato sauce, we were given butter and sugar and of course chilli sauce and fish sauce.  Yep, you heard it right!

This chicken is looking confused. If I was the chicken I would be running for the hills.  Look on the right side of the food cabinet.  I think these were his friends.

So from Chicken we go to crocodile.  This was in Nha Trang.

In search of Western food I went to a donut shop.  On first appearances it looked normal however, as usual when you look closer you always find a gem. Yep, meat and hot dog donuts (didn’t try this, not that silly).

Not sure what these fish are, but they love them here.  They are ok, but they are fill of bones, a good weight loss strategy! You either chock or it takes 1/2 an hour to eat one fish.

Now once the food is eaten, the dishes need to be done, so in Vietnam, they employ help. Yep, that is dog in the dirty dishes.  I find that you shouldn’t think about this ever.  You just look at it like you would the river and watch it float away.

Moving from food to transport and showing the link, charcoal is a major source of cooking fuel so you have a lot of these vehicles moving around.

Some people pimp their rides out.

Even Mc Donalds is up with the scooter revolution here.

So a major part of the scooter is that it can transport anything.  When I saw the one in the top right hand corner, I though, is that a coffin, but no, it was a cabinet.  Can you imagine the mess if the bike with the all those eggs crashed?

I worked for BOC and we sold a lot of gas and I have seen lots of ways that it is carried, but this one tops it off, green bottle on the right. Photo quality not good due to being so scared:).  Just kidding, I was at the traffic lights so was under time pressure.

I have always wondered how to transport my push bike on my scooter, both here in Vietnam  and also Australia, here it is

At the airport in Ho Chi Minh, they obviously don’t have enough air bridges so most of the time I get a bus from the terminal to the plane.  It is amazing walking beside these massive planes.

Vietnam is a predominately Buddhist country, so there are shrines in most businesses to bring good luck and ancestral ones in houses.  On my way to work I pass this.  I stopped once and found this.  I didn’t know tigers smoked?

My friends, the Valley Virgins made a guest appearance in Vietnam and they thought the face masks looked like men’s underwear and also I am not sure what one of them is doing to the ice.

Now with the shops, they are everywhere and you can buy almost anything at any time.  This is in a market near my home, see if you can spot the shop owner between the goods.

I thought this was really cute.  These guys fix motorbikes and are having a break

Now, after living with this all for 6 months, it can make you a little mad, this is what happened to Lauren.  She thought this was normal.  Well I am not surprised seeing all the crazy things we see everyday.  We call this phenomenon, “Random”.

Even Coca Cola has been affected by this phenomenon. You can decide what is going on here.

So I hope you have enjoyed this.  I love it here in Vietnam and seeing all these wonderful things everyday.