Going underground in Saigon
January 9th 2010 After my stint of R&R in Mui Ne, I was ready to get back into things in Saigon. I didn't really know much about the place, other than that it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victorious North Vietnamese after taking it from the South in 1975. Just a word on that though... HCMC is the name of the wider urban area, but the centre is still known as Saigon, and most locals still use this name. So I
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