Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, is Vietnam’s largest city and a bustling blend of the old and the new. For instance, visitors to this city will find both elegant shopping malls and old-fashioned markets crowded with stalls selling a dizzying array of local handicrafts and tantalizing street food.

Ho Chi Minh is also home to a large number of pagodas and temples, as well as to historical sites such as the Cu Chi tunnels that were used by the Viet Cong guerrillas to move around under the city during the Tet Offensive.