{"id":2722,"date":"2013-04-15T21:13:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T04:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jett.in\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2013-04-15T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T04:13:57","slug":"instawalk-saigon-central-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2013\/04\/instawalk-saigon-central-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk: Saigon Central Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

who would have thunk a post office (aka B\u01b0u \u0111i\u1ec7n Trung t\u00e2m S\u00e0i G\u00f2n<\/em><\/a>) would be a tourist attraction, but it is, and rightfully so. designed by Gustave Eiffel (yes, that Eiffel) and constructed in the late 19th century, it still has a lot of that colonial uhh, charm. (can i say that? that there is something charming about colonizing another country?)<\/p>\n

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Entrance<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tile floor<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Phone<\/a>

Old school phone booths. It seems like a popular thing to step inside one and have your picture taken.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Linges t\u00e9l\u00e9graphiques du Sud Viet-Nam et du Cambodge 1936<\/p><\/div>\n

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Main hall<\/p><\/div>\n

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Saigon et ses environs<\/p><\/div>\n

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According to Google Translate, the plaque reads “monuments postal modern period of development” (well, you get the idea) (EDIT: someone has called it the “Development of the Modern Era” monument<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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