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I have a friend, E, who balks at the idea of a trip to Ho Chi Minh. She complains that there really is not much there aside from the cheap North Face bags being sold there. But surely there should be much more to this city other than factory overruns right?
Right! For as soon as my friends and I stepped-out of our hotel on our first day in Ho Chi Minh, or Saigon, as it is popularly known among the locals, I knew that E could have been balking at the wrong city. The revving hordes of motorcycles winding through the roads of Ho Chi Minh is already a reminder that this is no boring place. Saigon is also well represented in the "East Meets West" adage of most cities for its history of being once the capital of French Indochina.
So before you go and buy your dirt cheap and brand-new backpacks, grab the most reliable one you have first and get ready to dance with motorcycles, be french with you architectural tastes, brush up with important history and open your eyes to a glimpse of life on the riverside (yes, get out of the city for a while!).
