Ho-Chi-Minh

Ho-Chi-Minh City - formerly known as Saigon - is world famous from the Cold War and the Vietnam war movies. The city presents it self quite modern and proud of their history. Even though it is as capitalist as any other country, flags showing the hammer and sickle and the former north Vietnamese flag can be seen everywhere. Traffic is frantic and difficult to avoid. We checked out several museums, the presidential palace and the Cuchi tunnels. The Cuchi tunnels are pretty far out of the city. there you can see the guerrilla war tactics of the Viet Cong, walk through the tunnels the US tried to carpet bomb and get to know the daily struggle of a soldier in the jungle.
Apart from that the Vietnamese food can be pretty strange. So it was fun to eat at the markets, where it was mostly a surprise dish instead of ordering in the traditional way.
Vietnam and Cambodia are loaded with history and Victoria and me had a lot of political discussions which can be tricky. Ho-Chi-Minh was Victorias favoured place in Southeast Asia - the traffic was a bit to intense for me to fully enjoy it.