A FEW DAYS IN SAIGON
February 21st 2017 We’re staying at the Beautiful Saigon Hotel in District 1, also known as the backpacker district. The usual tourist hotels are in another part of town; we’re in the area where younger (ahem) people stay, a mix of 2-3 star hotels and hostels, bars, massage parlors, cheap restaurants, and souvenir stores. We wear earplugs to sleep because of the rock music blasting out of the bars, but we knew t
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