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Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon River quays (buy-side)

Riverbank, tidal Documented siteRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: French limonade and siphon glass, BGI Larue beers.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1860-1940

[doc-trade] An active documented trade in dug French-colonial glass (Saigon Bottle Store, Le Cong Kieu antique street); the digging itself comes from construction sites and is undocumented.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Water quality, fast barge traffic

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