Saigon aka Ho Chi Minh City

HO Chi Minh, after whom the city is now named, is Vietnam's national hero. After "liberation from the Americans" in 1975, the communists suppressed them more for about 14 years. Then
they seemed to have figured it out. Saigon is a thriving, dynamic city of 9 million with 4 million motor bikes, and is an incredibly active port at the wide mouth of the Mekong River delta. There are freedoms here not usual in historically communist countries. Now, with private land ownership and low taxes, people are well fed and rice is abundant (and exported). Rice paddies and water buffalo are everywhere in the country. Even Buddha is smiling!
Small fish farms along the Mekong river channels provided us with well prepared luncheon fish rolls in a rice wrap.