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Out of Saigon - Cu Chi Tunnels Ho Chi Minh City
100 Reviews My wife and her mother went shopping, so my 7-year old daughter and I took a half-day bus tour out to the Cu Chi tunnels, where they have wartime tunnels left over you can crawl through, a display of...
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Water puppet show Hanoi
71 Reviews You absolutely must go to a Water Puppet Show (mua roi nuoc) when you are in Hanoi...At the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre you'll see a traditional art form which is unique to Hanoi and northern...
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Ben Thanh Market Ho Chi Minh City
72 Reviews Saigon Night Market is not just for lovers, for those who like to bring his family here to eat, shop and walk around at night ... this place is also a place to meet friends for a long meet, just food,...
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Hoan Kiem Lake Hanoi
106 Reviews The Hoam kiem lake is one of the nicest parts of Hanoi in my opinion. it´s one of the many lakes in Hanoi and it´s located right next to the old part of town. You have the charming little "turtle...
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Mekong Delta Ho Chi Minh City
66 Reviews Hi, Here are some addresses for halal food for you: * D'Nyonya Penang Restaurant, 58 Dong Du Street, D1 (Beside the Mosque and Sheraton Hotel), ☎ +84 8 6678 6044, [23]. Malaysian owned,...
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Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Hanoi
83 Reviews Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum is the largest memorial in Vietnam is located at the Da Dinh Square. This is where President Ho declared independent for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on Sept 2, 1945. The...
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War Remnants Museum Ho Chi Minh City
98 Reviews why Vietnamese have to anti American if they came in peace and went with it history is mostly written by the winners of the conflict i guess it ,too -but i guess it 's just telling you that American...
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Temple of Literature Hanoi
75 Reviews This is such an amazing place to visit in Hanoi. This is not a temple but a huge compound with beautiful gates, lakes, courtyard, museum, and etc. It was the first Vietnam University back in 1070...
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Reunification Palace Ho Chi Minh City
85 Reviews The reunification palace used to be the presidential palace when Saigon was the capital of south Vietnam. It´s in my opinion a pretty ugly building and also not the most interesting building to see...
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Out of Hanoi Hanoi
82 Reviews We spent three weeks in Vietnam and our Halong Bay trip with Indochina Sails was the very best. The boat was very nice, clean and comfortable. The food was very good and the service so warm. Everybody...
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Notre Dame Cathedral Ho Chi Minh City
79 Reviews I don't know how many people has visited this Church, I used to go every Sunday to the church kept many petitions and prayed to Mother Mary, my petitions were answered and received many blessings, so...
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One pillar pagoda Hanoi
52 Reviews The one pillar pagoda, or Chua Mot Cot as it is called in vietnamese is a small pagoda that stands in a lotus dam just around the corner from the Ho Chi Migh mausoleum. It was build way back in 1049...
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Post Office Ho Chi Minh City
68 Reviews HCMC One building that really impressed me when in Ho Chi Min City was the old French Colonial Post Office.I had some post cards to put in the post and was a good opportunity to see this lovely old...
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Walking arround Hanoi
66 Reviews Tran Quoc Pagoda is the oldest of Hanoi's pagodas. Originally established around 548AD along the Red River, it was moved to the present location around the year 1600AD. The name Tran Quoc means...
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Chinatown Ho Chi Minh City
37 Reviews Cholon's main market, a Chinese-style architectural masterpiece with a great clock tower in the centre. Much of the business here is wholesale. If you are buying in bulk, this is the place to do...
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Army Museum Hanoi
21 Reviews The centrepiece of the outside exhibits is this huge pyramid that has been put together by an artist out of the wreckage of a B-52, F-111 and a French transport plane - all of which were shot down. At...
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City Hall Ho Chi Minh City
41 Reviews The building was built in French colonial style. It is actually the office of Ho Chi Minh city's People Committee. Right in front of the building stands the statue of Ho Chi Minh president. The place...
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The Museum of Ethnology Hanoi
42 Reviews The museum of ethnology is around 8 kilometers from the city center in the Cau Giay district, but it´s really interesting and worth the detour. It´s dedicated to all the minority groups of Vietnam and...
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Temples Ho Chi Minh City
20 Reviews Located in Chinatown ,this is not one of the more elaborate temples but it was sure a happening spot on the New Years day that we visited. It was interesting to see the throngs of people coming to...
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Churches Hanoi
24 Reviews This neo-gothic cathedral built in the late-1800s is situated in the city's Old Quarter. If only the church has been well maintained and perhaps given a fresh coat of paint, it may not look out of...
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Out of Saigon - Cao Dai Temple Ho Chi Minh City
27 Reviews We ended up taking a tour that was gonna bring us to this temple. After reading about this place I was really hyped about seeing this place. But after a 3 hr drive to the middle of nowhere we finally...
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West Lake Hanoi
16 Reviews This lake is the largest in Hanoi with a shore length of around 17km (10.6 miles) and is a popular place for recreation with many surrounding gardens, hotels and villas. One legend suggests that the...
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Jade Emperor Pagoda Ho Chi Minh City
14 Reviews This Temple I was taken to when on my city tour. I was dropped off at the temple courtyard which had a tortoise pool, and quite a few people in the courtyard. On entering the main hall, the first...
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Opera House Hanoi
23 Reviews The Hanoi Opera is a stunningly beautiful building, and one of the few positive things that ever came out of French colonialism. It was built by the French in 1911 and modelled on Paris' famed Palais...
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Rex Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
22 Reviews One of the night we decided to go to the roof top bar of the Rex hotel, and we had a blast !!! the place was jam packed with locals and plenty of foreigner's. Prices were high, but your in elite...
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The Cu CHi Tunnels are about an hour outside of Ho Chi Minh City and are really interesting to anyone that is interested in the war, plus you can shoot a nubmer of different guns at their shooting range. If you do go to the range bring ear plus unless you want your ears ringing for a while.
If you love Vietnamese food and want to learn how to make it in a few hours, look for local signs on cafes/restaurants advertising cooking lessons.You can do orgainsed lessons where you go to a restaurant, cook a meal and then eat it but it was more fun finding your own restaurant and asking if they will teach you to cook Vietnamese style. Check with your accomodation for available "schools".Don't go the the 5 star places - they will be too expensive and probably too busy but many of the 1 - 2 star places outside of the old town (suburbs) were happy to teach us for a minimal fee. Sometimes the language barrier was up but noses came good....great fun and we learned to cook what we wanted...not justy spring rolls.It was fun trying to find a place but even more fun when we got around to cooking.....
Not far from Cu Chi Tunnels is another part of the complex Ben Duoc TunnelI enjoyed my visit here more than Cu Chi Maybe because the exhibits were a bit better.The Ben Duioc Temple was a delight. Relatively new, built about 1993 it ihas a huge nine storey tower, quite impressive out here in the countryside.Inside the main hall there is a stone with about 50,000 names on it - Vietnamese who fought and died in this areas. It is sobering - so many people in this area (saigon) dead.There are artifacts and models of the war in the underground room - seems a bit funny inside a temple....but this is Vietnam.You can do all three...if you do a tour you will be well organised and will probably not go to the temple...my second visit we caught local buses and taxied between tunnel areas - it was easy and still cheap.
A much overrated experience...wouldn't go again.Having said that it was mildly interesting - but so many of the exhibits are contrived and look so false.Best (worst) thing about the tunnel experience was the video shown about the tunnels. A giant cobweb of 200 KM of tunnels and they are so small....it would have been horrific fighting a war in these tunnels.You can go into a tunnel and go along a passage - I made it to the first hole and couldn't wait to get out - I'm not usuall claustrophobic but this was horrible!Take a tour or you can do it by bus but it will take a while. However, the area around the tunnels is pretty and some interesting villages...maybe make a day of it before crossing into Cambodia (not too far away)
I found this museum wandering around District 1. A tiny notice said it was a museum so in I went.What a fantastic place - the most beautiful artifacts and china and glass and pottery and paintings, some going back to the 7th 8 th century, and of course some later stuff; BUT it was just sitting on shelves and in alcoves where you could actually touch some of the exhibits...so scary that the most wonderful treaures were so openly placed to view. There is certainly a degree of propaganda paintings of people marching and carrying guns etc but the wonderful stained glass and peeling ocher walls, sun-bleached curtains, musty corridors, make up the charm of the place. I'm sure in a Western country we have nothing like this museum....I spent several hours here and would happily go back and see it all again.The building itself is a treasure being of French Colonial Architecture (restored after...
Located in District 1 this is a great museum in a lovely building originally built in 1885. Originally built as a museum it later became the Governor's Place and then after the Revolution it was the residence of the French High Commissioner...then it was the Supreme Court...then back to a museum as the "Revolution Museum" and now HCMC Museum.The building is as good as the displays which range from revolutionary struggles to Vietnam history and development to the economy and culture and ethnic groups.You can spend anywhere from an hour to half a day here.
My Son (Mee Sun) is a great place to visit. We travelled by motor bike but you can do tours or hire a car - it's about an hour from Hoi An itself. A friend went out for sunrise and said it was magical...so maybe that it something to look at.The relics are nothing like Siem Reap so don't have great expectations of a large area and many falling down builings. They are from mostly Hindu temples-towers from between the 4th and 13th century and they are a symbol of the Champa people, their art and building. I could easily have spent a much longer time there but it rained, and rained, and rained - in the end the mud got to me!It is a World Heritage Centre and is being carefuly redeveloped into a tourist area.Would I go again - yes, hopefully on a dry day!
After 7 days (two trips) I am still captivated by Hoi An and The Old Town of Hoi An is a facinating insight into what Hoi An was like in the 16th and 17th centuries. Although there are some tacky replicas in places in general the village is wonderful. Entry to all historical sites in Hoi An is via a coupon system, where 75,000 dong gets you a ticket that can be used to enter five attractions: one museum, one old house, one assembly hall, the handicraft workshop (and traditional music show) or the traditional theater, and either the Japanese Covered Bridge or the Quan Cong Temple. My highlights are:The Japanese Covered Bridge, constructed in the early 1600's by the Japanese community, and renovated in 1986. Museum of Folk Culture, 33 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street; the museum documents the dress and culture of rural Vietnam. Hoi An Museum of History and Culture, 7 Nguyen Hue Street. There are old...
I didn't know what to expect but loved the Ha Long Bay tour and stay on Cat Ba Island...the next time I did the same tour but stayed on board the junk overnight and had a wonderful time watching the tide ebb and flow and create magic images of the islands. Which one would I do again - I'd combine both and stay a night aboard a junk then head to Cat Ba for a stay there.Once on board the junk we meanderd around the bay, passed islands and rocky outcrops, water and fishing villages and stopped to visit Sung Soi Cave. The food was great, lots of alcohol if you wanted it.We also stopped at Tam Cung Grotto and out came the canoes so that we could paddle around the grotto and caves...a wonderful time on crystal clear waters. The young travellers loved diving and jumping off the junk but the wasn't for me.
Hai Phong is northern Vietnam's main port, and an important industrial and commercial center. 105km from Hanoi, Hai Phong is a beautiful city with much of the central colonial quarter still preserved. Many streets are bordered by flame flower trees, giving the city its other name "city of flame flowers". Hai Phong is also a good base for exploring other areas in the northeast such as Cat Ba and Halong bay.In Hai Phong itself, the Du Hang temple, Hang Kenh communal house and the old quarter are worth visiting. Nearby Do Son beach is northern Vietnam's most popular seaside retreat. It even boasts a casino!
Park Hyatt Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
5 Reviews and 438 Opinions All rooms offer pool of City views with full luxury amenities. As true sense 5- Star hotel, it is...
Hanoi Elegance 2 Hanoi
5 Reviews and 712 Opinions I booked our family sized room for 2 adults and our teenage daughter direct with the hotel from...
Victoria Hoi An Resort Hoi An
4 Reviews and 444 Opinions It's worth the money to stay and enjoy the beach like in Victoria Hoi An. Price from 150$++ public...
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Q: could someone please help? where can i buy ao dai (preferably well made and silk) for my grand-daughters, they are only 2-3...
A: Loads of places in both cities to buy Ao Dai either already made or to measure. For the small extra cost, have them made to measure and take the mesurements before going...
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