We are spending our last two nights of this trip in Ho Chi Min city also known as Saigon. It is a huge city with a bazillion motorbikes and a lot more development than we have seen anywhere in Vietnam. Skyscrapers with bars at the top and every high end chain you can imagine. We hadn't seen a Starbucks or macdonalds once until arriving here so clearly there is more international influence here. The temperature is 32 and unbearably hot and humid, so much so that I...

We are spending our last two nights of this trip in Ho Chi Min city also known as Saigon. It is a huge city with a bazillion motorbikes and a lot more development than we have seen anywhere in Vietnam. Skyscrapers with bars at the top and every high end chain you can imagine. We hadn't seen a Starbucks or macdonalds once until arriving here so clearly there is more international influence here. The temperature is 32 and unbearably hot and humid, so much so that I...