Ho Chi Minh City Trip Overview
Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnam’s biggest & busiest city, where modernity blends with history to fascinating effect. It is home to a treasure-trove of historical delights dating from Chinese invasion period to French-colonial Indochina and through to the infamous Vietnam War. This tour will take you to the historical highlights, whilst giving you facts that you wouldn’t have learned in history class!
Highlights:
– Admire the classical French-colonial architecture of the 19th-century buildings, including Notre Dame Cathedral and the City Centre Post Office
– Wander the vast halls of the beautifully preserved Reunification Palace
– Visit one of the oldest Chinese temples in China Town – built by the first -Chinese settlers and still used as an important place of worshipping
Additional Info
Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> City Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnam’s biggest & busiest city, where modernity blends with history to fascinating effect. It is home to a treasure-trove of historical delights dating from Chinese invasion period to French-colonial Indochina and through to the infamous Vietnam War. This tour will take you to the historical highlights, whilst giving you facts that you wouldn’t have learned in history class!
Highlights:
– Admire the classical French-colonial architecture of the 19th-century buildings, including Notre Dame Cathedral and the City Centre Post Office
– Wander the vast halls of the beautifully preserved Reunification Palace
– Visit one of the oldest Chinese temples in China Town – built by the first -Chinese settlers and still used as an important place of worshipping
Itinerary
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Pass By: Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City is the largest, busiest and most exciting city in Vietnam. It is also filled with intrigue and culture. Ho Chi Minh City is considered as a “blending mixture of culture” city in Vietnam. You can discover a lot of interesting things through people’s daily life. Founded and developed over 300 years, today, Ho Chi Minh City is a fascinating tourist spot with various cultural and historical features
Stop At: War Remnants Museum, 28 Vo Van Tan Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam
Operated by the Ho Chi Minh City government, an earlier version of this museum opened on September 4, 1975, as the Exhibition House for US and Puppet Crimes.
In 1995, following the normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States and end of the US embargo a year before, the references to “war crimes” and “aggression” were dropped from the museum’s title as well; it became the War Remnants Museum
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: The Independence Palace, 106 Nguyen Du District 1, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam
Independence Palace, also publicly known as Reunification Convention Hall , built on the site of the former Norodom Palace, is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the home and workplace of the President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. During the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, it was the site of the end of the Vietnam War, when a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed through its gates.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral, 01 Cong xa Paris Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam
Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon is a cathedral located in the downtown of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established by French colonists who initially named it the Church of Saigon (French: l’Eglise de Saïgon), the cathedral was constructed between 1863 and 1880. The name Notre-Dame Cathedral has been used since 1959. It has two bell towers, reaching a height of 58 meters (190 feet).
Stop At: Ba Thien Hau Temple, 710 Nguyen Trai Cho Lon, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Thien Hau Pagoda in Cho Lon – a Chinese-style temple located on Nguyen Trai Street in Cho Lon (China Town) – District 5, dedicated to Thien Hau, the Lady of the Sea, also known as “Mazu” (“Tian Hou” in Chinese).
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Central Post Office, 125 Hai Ba Trung, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City 70000 Vietnam
Saigon Central Post Office is a post office in the downtown Ho Chi Minh City, near Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, the city’s cathedral. The building was constructed when Vietnam was part of French Indochina in the late 19th century. It counts with Gothic, Renaissance and French influences. It was constructed between 1886 and 1891 and is now a tourist attraction
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Our last stop is Vietnamese lacquerware factory where you can observe the process of making these traditional Vietnamese products.
Duration: 20 minutes
