Whether you call it Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon, Vietnam’s most populous city is not to be missed. Located in the country’s south, Ho Chi Minh is a city with an elegant aspect spread across several rivers, and features a range of ancient, colonial-era, and modern structures from the highly-praised Saigon Opera House to the Landmark 81 tower. The capital of South Vietnam during the nation’s years of division, the city features many relics of this time, with the War Remnants Museum providing a sound basis for understanding the reasons for the conflict and how the city and country managed to come together in such an astonishing way today.