Saigon is a beautiful city with wide, tree lined boulevards, high rise buildings, and lots of parks. A surprisingly clean city. A lot different from when I saw it in Fall '66. Then it was choked with refugees from the countryside fleeing the war; many of them living on the streets. The city had all of the sanitation problems, begging, hustling, crime, disease, and despare that comes with over-crowding in a city in a war zone. It was great to see it in peace time. I could understand how it was once called "The Paris of the Orient."