Ho Chi Minh City Travel Guide

Ho Chi Minh City is located in the northeast of Mekong Delta, on the right bank of Saigon River, a tributary of Tongnai River, 800 kilometers away from Haikou. If you want to choose a place to travel around the world in Vietnam, it must be Ho Chi Minh City. The city is full of French buildings, many of which are still well preserved. This is a guide to Ho Chi Minh City.

Main attraction

Mekong River

Mekong River is the largest river in Southeast Asia, with a total length of 4 180 km. Originating from the northeast slope of Tanggula Mountain in China, it flows from north to south through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and enters the South China Sea at nine estuaries east of Ho Chi Minh City, so its reach into the sea is also called Jiulong River.

Red church

Notre Dame Cathedral in Ho Chi Minh City, also known as the Red Cathedral, is the most famous landmark in Ho Chi Minh City. Built in 1883, this church is a souvenir of the French colonial period.

The building is well-proportioned and magnificent, with two 40-meter-high bell towers towering into the sky, which are modeled after the bell tower of Notre Dame de Paris. All the red bricks used to build the church were shipped from France and did not fade at all. In the garden square in front of the church, stands a 4-ton statue of the Virgin Mary, which was presented by the Roman church in 1945. The exterior porch of the church is covered with exquisite carvings, and the interior is surrounded by a small prayer room. The shrines, sculptures and decorations in each room are different.

Zhiming Huang Yu Temple Travel

Jade Emperor Temple is a treasure in China temples. There are many colorful statues of immortals and strange people in the temple. 1909 The Jade Emperor Temple built by Guangdong Guild Hall is the most attractive temple in Ho Chi Minh City. The traditional figures of Buddhism and Taoism in temples are carved paper figures. From here, walk half a block northwest.

Yongchang Temple Tourism

Yongchang Temple, located in Meto City, not far from Saigon, has a history of 100 years and is one of the famous local temples.

From the architectural style, Yongchang Temple seems to follow some elements of Hindu temples. The architectural color is bright and lively, the lines and feet are flowered, and the volume is light.

Central post office

Ho Chi Minh City Central Post Office, built at the end of 19, was designed by French architects. The interior of the hall is luxuriantly decorated and the dome is very classical. On both sides of the spacious hall are business counters, with circular benches, souvenir counters and long desks in the middle from outside to inside. Ho Chi Minh looked down kindly at the crowds of foreign tourists at the end of the hall, who were taking pictures, staring blankly or writing with a large stack of postcards.

Food recommendation

Vietnamese soup mix

Vietnamese vermicelli is a well-known and common food in Vietnam. Beef vermicelli can also be cooked or eaten raw. Raw beef is ground meat, which is half-cooked after mixed with hot soup and quite delicious. You can eat it in the morning, noon and night. A bowl of Vietnamese rice noodles is about 12000 Vietnamese dong.

Fried elephant fish

Fried elephant fish is a famous dish worth recommending. A palm-sized fish was thoroughly fried. Fish tastes crisp and delicious. A fish is about 70,000 guilders.

Yueshi crab

Vietnamese chefs cook rotten crabs with rich local spicy sauce, without destroying the umami taste of crabs at all. A dish of seasoning is a mixture of pepper, Jiang Mo, geranium and lemon juice.

Sugarcane shrimp

The practice of sugarcane shrimp is to mash the shrimp, mix with sweet potato powder, wrap it on peeled sugarcane and fry it into golden brown. When eating, wrap the peeled shrimp, perilla, lettuce, basil, leek, shredded white radish, peanut powder and soy sauce in the skin of spring rolls, which tastes sweet and spicy.

Cantonese spring rolls

Cantonese-style spring roll skin is a very thin dry skin made of rice flour, which is rolled into dishes, chicken, shrimp, fungus, winter powder, nine-story tower and coriander in turn. The rolling method is like China Spring Roll, with Vietnamese sweet and spicy sauce and a little lemon juice as dipping sauce. There are many stalls in the street, and a spring roll is about 2,000 Vietnamese dong.

Line recommendation

Day 1: Meto? Mekong River? Taishan Island? Yongchangsi

After breakfast, take a bus to the rural water village in Mekong Delta, 75km away from Ho Chi Minh City. Meiduo, the city of Meiduo is rich in all kinds of fruits. You have the opportunity to taste ginseng fruit, buttermilk fruit and so on, which are rare in China. When eating pineapple in Meto, try adding salt, red pepper powder and vinegar together, which has a special flavor. On the way to Meto, you can enjoy the rural scenery. After arriving at the dock, you can change to a sightseeing cruise ship to visit the longest river in Southeast Asia. Mekong River and visit Taishan Island. Tropical fruits are planted everywhere on the island. Group members can taste Vietnamese specialties, especially enjoy fresh seasonal fruit dinners, cross tropical orchards, canoe through jungles and experience the beautiful scenery of South Vietnam water town. It is novel and fun, and suddenly makes people feel relaxed and happy. For lunch, taste Mekong oil-soaked elephant fish and Vietnamese spring rolls. After lunch, return to Ho Chi Minh and visit the Tianhou Palace-Yongchang Temple in the Chinese area. After the tour, visit the 27-7 lacquer mill, where group members can buy eggshell paintings unique to Vietnam, which are various artistic hanging paintings made of eggshells and shells. Then drive to the French opera house and town hall square. The building was completed on 1908. This is a French building, with gorgeous appearance and interior. In front of it, there is a neatly manicured green island garden with European urban style. Team members can take photos as a souvenir.

The next day: Ho Chi Minh City? The red church? Central post office? War Crimes Museum? Ho Chi Minh Presidential Palace? Toudun

After breakfast, visit the most famous landmark in Ho Chi Minh City? The red church, whose name comes from the fact that it is built with red bricks, is well-proportioned and solemn. You can sincerely pray for yourself and the people around you here. There is also a statue of the Virgin Mary in the garden square in front of the church. Then visit the French central post office. The semi-circular ceiling inside is very classical. You can take a photo with the huge portrait of Ho Chi Minh in the hall, or send a loving postcard to your relatives and friends in this special post office. In the afternoon, I will come to the War Crimes Museum, where I will show you the scars of the Vietnam War and help you relive history. And then visit the unified venue? Presidential Palace, a typical French building. Dozens of gorgeous halls in the mansion have their own characteristics, just like an independent command center. Underground is a military command post with anti-bombing capability, where the anti-bombing military plans of the South Vietnamese government and the US military are planned. Enjoy China and Vietnamese food at noon, and then go to the beautiful beaches in Nanwan Special Zone? Touton, Touton is a famous coastal tourist city in Vietnam. At dusk, you can freely lie on your back on Shili Long Beach and enjoy the caress of the sea and the afterglow of the sunset. In addition, you can also enjoy a Vietnamese massage at your own expense to relax your muscles and eliminate the fatigue of the day. You can taste the local seafood hotpot for dinner.