Saigon Tourism Impresses

Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) sets a deep impression on visitors as the largest, most boisterous and active city in Vietnam. The ancient architecture of Saigon, once known as the Eastern Pearl, has preserved and embellished, becoming an ideal destination for tourists. Tourists can also find modern art works and new high-rise buildings in the center of Saigon and its thoroughfares are lined and shaded by ancient trees. Visitors also have the chance to call at the Chinese-founded Cho Lon Market with its bustling old roads surrounded by commercial and production establishments. Ho Chi Minh City is also both a tourism hub and the largest tourism gateway in the country. The city has an excellent tourism infrastructure and service system ranging from recreational centres to hotels and restaurants. With a pleasant climate, the tourist season is all the year round.

 

For a perfect visit to Ho Chi Minh City, visitors simply must pay a visit to the city’s unique features including its 11 museums displaying historical and cultural artifacts, a chain of over 1,000 pagoda-communal houses-temples constructed throughout Vietnamese history and displaying cultural, architectural and artistic masterpieces. A tour of the river shouldn’t be missed because it provides an overview on the development processes of this promising land. Along the river, visitors can view a panorama of the city, from the rows of coconuts along the river’s edge to high-rise buildings, from boats full of farm produce to Vietnam’s largest Saigon Port for oceangoing ships, from Nha Rong Wharf where President Ho Chi Minh left Vietnam to find the way to save the country to Bach Dang Wharf which specialises in providing boats for river tours.

 

To the northwest of the city is the Cu Chi Tunnel system, a revolutionary base with thick underground tunnels, the Cu Chi Tunnel Complex and the Ben Duoc Memorial beside the Saigon River. These are unique tourist sites in the city and are exclusive works of world military history, which embody the iron will, intelligence and ingeniousness of the city’s dwellers during the Vietnam War. These relics have been invested in, upgraded, restored and embellished, from Command Centres to art show stages, battlefield hospitals and Hoang Cam cookers. A lot of wartime utensils and apparatus have been collected and restored while the uninterrupted tunnel system has been reinforced in order to be capable of accommodating thousands of visitors at a time. The Cu Chi Tunnel Complex, Ben Duoc Tunnel and Cu Chi Liberated Zone were among the first to be recognised as national historical relics of Ho Chi Minh City.

 

The city is building more and more natural tourist sites with folk architecture features, making it a real resort and entertainment spot for visitors.