Ho Chi Minh City 1

The Saigon Botanic Gardens were founded by the French in 1865 equipped with a zoo.

An endangered Nothern White-cheeked Gibbon
 female

male

There was no cage or net around them but somehow they were staying in trees on a small island surrounded by a narrow waterway.

And on the same island, there were amazing birds, which we had never imagined to see in the botanic gardens!

Oriental Darter（アジアヘビウ）

 Little Cormorant（アジアコビトウ）

Ruddy Shelduck（アカツクシガモ）

Spot-billed Duck（カルガモ）

Purple Swamphen（セイケイ）

None of them seemed to be captive and were free to go whenever they felt like:)


Something very small was running around on the ground.

Lesser Mouse-deer（マメジカの仲間、カンチール？）

the smallest known hoofed mammal according to wikipedia:)
They looked slightly bigger than rats, which were also residents on the island.

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views in HCMC

the statue of Ho Chi Minh and the People's Committee Building

the Municipal Theatre(left) and the Continental Hotel

the Majestic Hotel

chaotic traffic in the city