Before Saigon begins to demolish the 150-year-old French-built sewers that lie under the streets of District 1, it looks like the city is allowing select camera crews into the leaky, cockroach-infested caverns.
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This video, shot by VnExpress, takes viewers through the crumbling but fascinating tunnels that run under Le Thanh Ton and Ton Duc Thang Streets.
The old sewers, modeled after their Parisian counterparts, vary in size from as large as 2.35 meters wide and 1.8 meters high to a cramped 0.5 meters wide and 0.5 meters high.
