Day 77: in the Port of Phu My, Vietnam.
Hi chi Minh City is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong Delta. Under the name, PreyNokor, it was the main Port of Cambodia, before being annexed in the Vietnamese in the 17th century. Under the name Saigon, it was the capital of the French colony of Cochinchina, and later of the independent estate of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. In 1975 Saigon was merged with the surrounding province of Gia Dinh and renamed Ho Chi Minh City after revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (although the name of Saigon is still widely used). The city has transformed from what was once an impoverished war-devastated peasant society into a modern city with a thriving commercial culture, although they are still not fully recovered and poverty is still an issue.
Pictured is the Thien Hau Temple, a Chinese-style temple of the Chinese goodness Mazu.
