Merry Christmas In Hochiminh City - December 2007

It was a peaceful and happy day of the Christmas’s season in Hochiminh city. Climate wasn’t cold to enjoy as we expected, there wasn’t fireworks and special musical programs, but the ornament lights for streets were beautiful and for it’s been popular festival nowadays in developing countries and so has Vietnam, therefore here in Hochiminh city, crowd of people preferred walking downtown to district 1 surrounding Notre Dam church where it’s a favorite place for catholic community. Oodles of other people also gather to join pleasures or other places such as Tax trading center, opera house, supermarket, religious villages in District 8 as well as almost of churches here in hochiminh city were in the festive atmosphere. People still like riding their motorbikes to go around the city for pleasures, of course traffic jam happened here but not very serious, appeared to have improvements from motorcyclist and street security officers…vehicles moves slowly one by one, group by group, people by people…

Some families, friends, colleagues and foreigners didn’t have to walk out downtown, they held party and feast from home for overnight, some went to café, bars or did what they wanted to relax…

Santa claus (Noel’s old man in Vietnamese meaning) is really happiness to children, they can enjoy laughing with humors, fun and to enjoy gift-giving. Dam Sen and Suoi Tien are two biggest entertainment parks of the city where they also hosted many kinds of interesting things and cultural programs for children, families and tourists.

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Comment and Photos by Kan Nguyen
Dec 24 and 25, 2007
Hochiminh city, Vietnam.