The Saigon Zoo

I visited the Saigon zoo.  It was a good place to get some images of families on a Sunday afternoon.  Someone told me that it used to be a botanical gardens.  I think it was probablly a better garden than it is a zoo.  As a zoo it is pretty conventional and seems to be somewhat outdated.  The families that were there seem oblivious to that detail and were all enjoying themselves.

Here are some images of families.  I had a long lens mounted so I could get some detail from a distance.  It turns out I was able to piggy back on a lot of posing that went on.  The first image shows some families arriving on their scooters.

This image was taken from a distance she was blowing bubbles into a picture being posed.

Pretty old fashioned animal exhibits.  This tiger paced up and down in front of the barrier for a while then went back and sat in the shade with the other tiger in the exhibit.

These guys were working on an exhibit or maybe it was an audition for Discovery channel's "Dirty Jobs".  I never did figure out if that piece of equipment was stuck there or if that was on purpose.