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Twenty reasons to visit Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City has exotic food, colonial architecture, and memories of war, writes Guy Wilkinson.
Ho Chi Minh City has exotic food, colonial architecture, and memories of war, writes Guy Wilkinson.
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Crossing a street in Vietnam requires a clear head and nerves of steel, two things not exactly helped by a raging hangover.
Will a trip to Vietnam in June be too hot?
Ho Chi Minh City pulls out all the stops for Paul Chai.
What's it like sleeping on a subterranean beach, deep inside the world's third-largest cave? Quite noisy actually.
Don't get cheated when applying for a visa to Vietnam online.
Kick back and relax in a holiday spot historically favoured by Vietnamese royalty.
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Ethereal landscape meets bustling food markets; this former French colony is an exotic destination that taps all the senses. Tranquil beauty lingers from jade-coloured waters to soaring limestone islands in the north, majestical wonder surrounds old imperial palaces and bluey hill-tops around Hue, giving way to multi-storey department stores, mega-coffee houses and endless bustle of traffic in the big city life of Ho Chi Minh.