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Hello my dreamers, I hope you enjoyed reading each of my articles about the different places I visited in Vietnam. To finish this chapter, I’m going to write about what to do in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), when traveling will be safe.
If you’re visiting my blog for the first time, you have just come across the last article from a long series devoted to the month-long trip that I made alone in 2016 to know my parents’ country better. If you want to read all my adventures in Vietnam, I invite you to click on these links:
Reunion
About 10 years after my last visit to Vietnam, I’m going back there alone and not mastering Vietnamese at all lol but whatever, I wanted to go back. So, I was moved when I landed in Ho Chi Minh City. It has mostly changed because there are a lot more cars than before but the city hasn’t changed that much in my opinion. I immediately recognized my uncle and my two aunts at the airport (they did too, fortunately XD) and encountered a new little cousin. For 2 weeks, communication with my family was a bit funny XD but I was happy to see them again. They only speak Vietnamese and I can only say a few things in Vietnamese while I understand what I’m told, I know it’s weird…so when I had wifi, I used the translation application “Voice Translator” which was essential to me!
“There is plenty of things to do in Ho Chi Minh City”
Here is what I recommend you to do in Ho Chi Minh City:
- to take a night stroll on the main avenue of the town hall
- to go to the Starlight Bridge (or Ánh Sao Bridge) to admire its very long rainbow fountain (very pretty at night)
- to shop at Bến Thành market at night
- to admire the Notre-Dame of Saigon Cathedral, the Central Post Office designed by French, including Gustave Eiffel, the central mosque or the Saigon opera house
- to immerse yourself in the history of Vietnam by going to the Reunification Palace because it is an important place but above all, we can see various beautiful meeting rooms and old telecommunications devices in the basement. This is why I find it less interesting than the Ho Chi Minh City museum where handicrafts, old stamps, and banknotes, old devices, traditional costumes are displayed…
- to visit pagodas like for example the Jade Emperor Pagoda, which at the entrance has a basin with small turtles and which is unlike any other pagoda that I have visited. Indeed, its interior is rather small, dark, and has some scary statues ^^”
- to have a drink and contemplate Ho Chi Minh City from the Alto Heli Bar at the top of the Bitexco Financial Tower
- if you can, to take a little getaway to Vũng Tàu a few hours away, to be near the sea and eat good seafood
- to do like the locals by having a snack on a terrace on small plastic chairs ^^
And so on…There is plenty of things to do in Ho Chi Minh City but also, do not forget to eat !! XD
So, what do you think about Vietnam?
Thanks for reading me, I hope you enjoyed this long story about Vietnam! See you on the next trip!
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