What could not be missed when you are in Hochiminh city is some of the significant museums that tell the whole vivid story of a heroic and historical Saigon.. Revolutionary Museum Ly Tu Trong Street – Ho Chi Minh City Inside the famous Hochiminh City (or Saigon) of Vietnam, there stands a more than 100 [...]

Whoever staying in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam often pays a visit to Chợ Lớn (or Sai Gon’s China Town), a super vast market town, to be attached to a crowded space of Sai Gon life Whenever Chợ Lớn (or Cholon in some documents) is referred to, everyone may immediately think of a Cholon [...]

A great evidence and memorial site of southern Vietnam’s heroic and heart-breaking war against foreign invaders is found in Cu Chi Tunnel, northwest of Saigon (Hochiminh city) Location. Around 70 kilometers northwest of Saigon, Cu Chi Tunnel is right near the so-called “Iron Triangle” of Southern Vietnam. Both the Saigon River and Route 1 pass [...]

The Duc Ba (Our Ladys) Cathedral is the spiritual and cultural crucible of the Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh city. After the first French colonising force arrived in Viet Nam in the mid-19th Century, it took only 21 years before the country had a cathedral to match the hulking Gothic edifices of France itself. The [...]

Jade Emperor Pagoda Set to the north of the botanical gardens on Nguyen Binh Khiem, the Jade Emperor Pagoda is easily Saigon’s most atmospheric. If you’ve got time for just one pagoda, this should be the one. Constructed by the city’s Cantonese community at the turn of the century,the Jade Emperor guards the entrance to [...]