Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon, is a frenetic Asia city of markets, streets clogged with scooters, street side food stalls, as well as foreign restaurants office blocks and shopping malls. It is Vietnam’s economic powerhouse and the rate of progress over the last few years has been remarkable. Saigon is an exciting and exotic city where the pace of the life never dims and which is now looking forward with great optimism after its tumultuous 20th century.