Welcome to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Vietnam Backroads team will meet you at the airport, take you to Saigon centre, check in at the hotel, and have a rest of the day. Welcome dinner at a famous restaurant in town. Ho Chi Minh is known as Saigon formerly, and today locals often called it the city centre. It used to be the "Pearl of the Far East" in the last centuries as it was an important trading centre for Asian traders and Western merchants. It's one of the country's leading commercial city centres with plenty of changes.