Vietnam with the Dowlers: Christmas time in Vietnam

One of the most popular activities in HCMC for Christmas is to dress up in a Christmas outfit and get your picture taken in front of every decorated area you can find. We went into the city last night and there must have been a million people in the city, you could hardly move in the streets with motorbikes and the streets were filled with people, all taking pictures. This is one of the places with line ups last weekend, as you can see the decorations are often sponsored by companies.

The decorations are amazing with the cost of labour and materials quite low the results are very impressive.

I sent some of these gorgeous hand made cut out Christmas Cards to the family...they are gorgeous.

A small shop decorated with REAL Gingerbread brick fronts, the mortar is icing..I watched them making this! They had huge boxes of pieces of baked gingerbread.

I wanted to add the BBGV Christmas party episode to this post as well. We had a great night with John & Cass at this party held by the British Business Group of Vietnam. Apparently it heralds the start of the Christmas celebrations as a rule. It was a 'Shaken but not Stirred' James Bond theme.
I have the link to the actual photo page you can click on below from BBGV, we are on page 3...
http://www.bbgv.org/events/photo-galleries/43-category/193-collection.html?start=42