Ho Chi Minh City in three days: holiday itinerary — theguardian.com

Vietnam’s largest city has sprawled from the small Khmer village of Prey Nokor, once surrounded by prowling tigers, through a century of opium-raddled French colonialism, to today’s manic, modern metropolis stalked by glassy skyscrapers – a rapacious capitalist machine powering a one-party socialist republic. Once you’ve reconciled the tropical heat with a city permanently garlanded in Christmas fairy lights, and mastered how to wade through the rivers of motorbikes flowing through the city’s streets (just launch into the traffic and don’t stop or hesitate), embrace the addictive madness in one of south-east Asia’s most exciting cities.

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