Budapest to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam from €558

🌍 About Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City is still Saigon to most people who live here, and the old name fits the pace — louder, hotter and more frantic than Hanoi. The thing to do is the War Remnants Museum: blunt, harrowing, and the clearest single account of the war you'll find anywhere in the country. Then eat bún thịt nướng — grilled pork over cold rice noodles, herbs and crushed peanuts, drowned in fish-sauce dressing — and drink cà phê sữa đá, coffee dripped over condensed milk and ice. District 1 holds the colonial-era core; the Cu Chi tunnels are a half-day trip out. Come December to March, the dry season, for sun and bearable humidity; May to November is the wet months, with daily afternoon downpours — though that's also when fares drop.