More impressions of HCMC: Smoggy gray air blankets the city, not surprising given all of the vehicles spewing exhaust. Along with the exhaust is the constant din of motors and horns. Just walking around the block last night was overload.
Driving into the city yesterday we saw numerous high rises, easily the equal of anything in the US, under construction or newly completed. We also saw billboards advertising luxury condos for rent and another advertising the American School of HCMC. Somehow this just doesn't seem quite right for a nation that forced the US to abandon its attempt to save South Vietnam from the Communism. The difference is probably more the result of changing world economics and the "ultimate triumph" of capitalism that forces even Communists to accept the New World Order.
Note: later in the day we arrived in Da Nang and ate lunch at the bar fight restaurant.
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