Mekong Delta Biketrip, Day One: Tet flowers in Saigon

by mikka


You will now have nightmares for the rest of the Year of the Buffalo. 

We started the bike trip in a weirdly subdued Saigon, a few days before the official start of Tet; we didn't do much and actually lost a day, because Iain was sick and I like any excuse to lie in bed all day watching bad horror movies, but there was a huge flower market right next to the backpacker district, selling an apparently endless array of yellow and pink flowers, fruit plants and gigantic buffalos made from what look to be lemons or some weird alien flower bulbs.




Round yellow and orange flowers  to symbolize money. 




In case you ever wondered where dragonfruit comes from (outer space, clearly).