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Article: Ho Chi Minh City Lures the Backpack Crowd
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 14, 1995
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Prague is passe. Ho Chi Minh City is in.
That's the word among young American backpackers headed for
overseas hot spots.
"Tay ba lo. That's the local Vietnamese name for the increasing
number of Western backpackers plodding Ho Chi Minh City streets,"
writes Wink Dulles, author of the Fielding's Vietnam guide.
"Like an Asian Prague, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)) is what
Singapore was in the '60s," says Sue Galley, publisher of Lonely
Planet books, which is issuing a Ho Chi Minh City guidebook in
October. "It's cheap to eat and stay in, with all the excitement of
a vigorous Asian market city."
The lifting of the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam last
February has brought an influx of ...