Although set in 1952, this opening narrative from The Quiet American, the Phillip Noyce film of the Graeme Green novel, captures something of the magic and mystique of Saigon, and indeed Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and Yangon.

"I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam. That a woman's voice can drug you, that everything is so intense... the colors, the taste, even the rain. Nothing like the filthy rain in London.

They say whatever you are looking for, you will find here."