"TRÊN BẾN DƯỜI THUYỀN is translate to On the dock, under the boat. To celebrate Lunar New Years there is this special flower market in Ho Chi Minh City. Sellers from the country side would ship all their flowers and plants on boats, dock it and walk using planks to the street to sell. The street was a sea of red, yellow and orange. Just brimming with bougainvilleas, marigolds, and the New Years yellow apricot blossoms also called Hoa Mai or Mai Vàng.

Tu and Tina were in heaven, they grew up seeing these flowers for New Years. We were very poor then growing up in Vietnam in the post war 1970’s and couldn’t afford many celebratory plants. Tina joked and said she used to ride her bicycle to buy a mai flower plant on New Year’s Eve because then the plants would be half price and that’s when we could afford it. Well wouldn’t you know, it was New Year’s Eve today and here she is buying a half price plant. Lol

Also some photos of how they strap the plants on the motorbikes or hold on to them as they ride. I think we spent more time gawking at how they balanced everything on the bikes than plant gazing. It was pretty wild!