Walk through the dormitory area of Saigon

• Walk through the dormitory area of Saigon

Saigon sleeping bag is very different from our usual quarters, hammered gray paneled dull apartment blocks.

No, it does not mean that there is no dullness and depression. Rather, there are very few high-rise buildings. And these areas are the real essence of Vietnam fuss.

It just so happens that modern Vietnamese megacities grew out of the vast densely populated settlements. entirely composed of narrow-cubbyholes homes, growing up in tiny rooms in which people live from the lower social strata. Vietnamese megacities grew even got skyscrapers and high-rise buildings in the central areas and sleeping areas with suburbs, which is where a huge number of people, and have remained low-rise, but incredibly dense.

Systematic destruction of these areas followed the same type of buildings the usual high-rise buildings on the Chinese example in Saigon has not yet begun, so, if you wish, you can still see the Vietnamese city's favelas, which boils in the real life and struggle for daily bread.

Walk through the dormitory area of Saigon

Something like avenue in one of the sleeping areas of Saigon. This road in residential areas can be called a wide, t. To. The rest is much narrower, and the pedestrian part they tend to be a big problem ...

... because they are overwhelmed with fruit, herbs, consumer goods and even a million different things, goods, motorbikes and all sorts of different stuff.

Nowhere to go peheshodam? Yes, they like something and there is almost pedestrian - everything, basically, move or on bicycles, motorbikes or on foot is much less

Residential buildings. These shanty-house - not the worst housing, which can be an inhabitant of the area.

Here, at least the rooms area greater than 10 square meters.

As an alternative, there's such multi-storey houses, surprisingly reminiscent of the ghetto in Krakow from the film "The Pianist"

The third option - these are houses built in his own way. As a rule, these houses are quite narrow, lined up. There are both double-decker and the 6- and even 7-story "candle" with one flat and narrow stairs to each floor.

Judging by the parked Mercedes, this fashionable quarter in Saigon sleeping bag.

neighborhoods themselves like giant anthills, packed with people and motorcycles.

What you see is a typical picture of the street in a residential area of Saigon.

Almost each of these comrades signals.

With the habit of our human brain simply boils in half an hour on a busy finding Saigon street from the cacophony

Every resident since childhood organically fit into the crazy rhythm of life of the area in which he lives.

By the way, many of them have never in my life do not leave their district without actually knowing the other life around

But to see the real life, take to the streets in any narrow doorway.

In fact, it would not at all the doorways, and the long serpentine passage to the next street, passing through dozens of yards, patios, houses and shops.

Here a completely different atmosphere than on the bustling street