Overview:
Ho Chi Minh city, which is over 300 years - old, is an old and modern city at the same. Although Ho Chi Minh city has an old and long historical story, VieTourist believes that it is worths understanding and learning about Ho Chi Minh City through top – visited destinations.
Highlights:
- Visit Ben Dinh Tunnel
- Explore the massive network under the ground used in the Vietnam War.
- Know about Vietnam war and see some evidences remain such as bomb crafter and tank.
- Enjoy boiled topioca and sharing story about War
- Visit Reunification Palace - Top choice historical building
- Visit Central Post Office and Notre Dame Catheral – two icons of Ho Chi Minh city
- Visit War Remnants Museum – Top-rated museum in Vietnam
DAY 1: CU CHI (HALF DAY)
7h30 AM: Departing from Tourism Corporation VieTourist office at 95 – 97 – 99 Tran Hung Dao street, Cau Ong Lanh ward, district 1. The mini van/ car arrives at Cu Chi. On the road, we arrive at Handicraft Village. You can find out about traditional Vietnamese art paintings. Paintings are drawn sophisticatedly and brightly.
We may stop along the way for refreshments and toilet.
9h00 AM: It takes us 1 hour to reach Ben Dinh – a system network belonging to Cu Chi tunnels.
When you go through the entrance, you will watch a brief of propaganda video, which introduce Vietnam war and the way the tunnels were utilized to struggle against G.Is in Vietnam war.
We will visit the surroundings and follow our tour guide to discover the Ben Dinh tunnel. Tour guide will explain to you the life of people who lived under the ground and how they survived and contacted each other
Then, you will experience realistically by crawling through the tunnels and eating boiled tapioca which was the main food people had to digest day by day. Take some rest and have intersting conversations about the war in the past.
12h00 AM: Lunch time! We have lunch at Ben Dinh restaurant.
DAY 1: HO CHI MINH CITY (HALF DAY)
02h00 PM: The coach/ car takes us back to Ho Chi Minh city. We will visit Reunification Palace – The building, which was named Norodom Palace, was constructed for the French government in 1868. After The French moved out of Norodom Palace, The South Vietnam president was taken over and rebuilt the palace with the design of Ngo Viet Thu. This place is famous not only for its history but also for its unique architecture.
03h30 PM: We keep going to two popular places which are known as symbols in Ho Chi Minh city. Central Post Office, which built between 1886 and 1891, has French colonial architecture combined with Eastern style. This place has been existed with history of Ho Chi Minh city for a long time and there are two painted maps created inside the post office. One map is titled “Telegraphic lines of Southern Việt Nam and Cambodia 1892” and the other is titled “Sài Gòn and its surroundings 1892”.
Not far away is Notre Dame Cathedral, constructed in 1863 and fully constructed in 1880 by French architecture, has Roman architectural style mixed with Gothic architectural style and including cathedral, two bell towers (58 meters) and park outside. The building has been in remodeling, so we are not able to go inside, but the view outside is wonderful and worth checking in.
04h00 PM: Continue the journey, we head to War Remnants Museum. The must - visit museum for tourists in Ho Chi Minh city. The first name was ““Exhibition House for U.S. and Puppet Crimes” in 1975, but the name was changed to " “Exhibition House for Crimes of War and
Aggression” in 5 years later. Until now, it has the name “War Remnants Museum” in which displays, stores and preserves evils and outcomes of the war. This place is also the last destination in this trip.