Twenty reasons to visit Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City has exotic food, colonial architecture, and memories of war, writes Guy Wilkinson.
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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.
