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Extract from the Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Travel Guides:
Washed ashore above the Mekong Delta, some 40km north of the South China Sea,
HO CHI MINH CITY
is a city on the march, a boomtown where the rule of the dollar is absolute. Fuelled by the sweeping economic changes wrought by
doi moi,
this effervescent city, perched on the west bank of the Saigon River, now boasts fine restaurants, immaculate hotels, and glitzy bars among its colonial villas, venerable pagodas and austere, Soviet-style housing-blocks. Sadly, Ho Chi Minh City is also full to bursting with people for whom progress hasn't yet translated into food, lodgings and employment, so begging, stealing and prostitu...
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| General : A bit of trivia |
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| Ho Chi Minh's real name was actually Nguyen Tat Thanh. He bought an ID card from probably a beggar with no relatives. He had many other aliases. |
 Posted by basha on 27/04/2004 19:03:04 |
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Travelslang Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Travel Guides Opinions Tips & Advice
| Going Out : Good bar |
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| For fans of the film by Francis Ford Coppola visit the bar of the same name in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh). It appears a tacky thing but the locals are well past worrying about those things. |
| Posted by tominasia on 08/03/2004 15:51:11 |
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Travelslang Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Travel Guides Opinions Tips & Advice
| Getting Around : Phnom Penh To Ho Chi Minh |
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| Going from Phnom Penh to Vietnam, you can now go by boat into Chau Doc in the Mekong Delta, then make your way to Saigon with no backtracking. |
| Posted by User Not Logged In. on 06/05/2003 17:07:18 |
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Travelslang Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Travel Guides Opinions Tips & Advice
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