We stayed in Saigon (officially Ho Chi Minh City) for 2 nights.  We figured out how the city was organized and visited the limited number of “highlights” – the most depressing of which was the War Remnants Museum – the Vietnam War revisited (a bit of the 1945 revolution against the French also) mainly focused on Agent Orange & bombs.

We visited an organic farm & took a 3 hour cooking class in Vietnamese cuisine.  It actually was a lot of fun.  Our guide is clearly ambitious – she wants to work for an organic farm in the US for a year so that she can bring more expertise back to the Vietnamese farmers.  She learned her great English in one of Saigon’s parks – a great example how an entrepreneur  provided classes & experiences to Saigon’s youth in a more cost efficient manner than the university system.  She also took us to the tunnels of Cu Chi where the Vietnamese built 250km of underground tunnels to fight the US and the South Vietnamese soldiers.  It was interesting  but not great.