Pho at 6am, noise all night
Saigon refuses to sleep. The best banh mi, the most motorbikes, and a history that will floor you.
Known as Saigon for most of its history, the city became the capital of French Cochinchina and later South Vietnam, before the fall of Saigon in 1975 ended the war and led to its renaming. French colonial boulevards and that more recent history both remain visible in the same few blocks.