Formely know as Saigon, today's Ho Chi Minh City is the bustling and vibrating economic center of the South Vietnam. From Hanoi to the south, the distance is 1.724 kilometers. Over the past few centuries, Saigon was called the "Pearl of the Far East", and was an important trading center for the Chinese, Japanese and Western merchants who traveled up the Saigon River. Ho Chi Minh has a compelling landscape of buildings reminiscent of French influence, ancient Buddhist pagodas and austere Soviet-style housing blocks. Once there you can spend the day visiting some of its swanky sites-the hotels and office blocks, markets where you can watch girls clad in traditional silk ao dai, cyclos piled with wicker baskets of fruit, strolling Buddhist monks and so much more.

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