Location : 73 Mai Thi Luu Street, district 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Built in 1909 by the Cantonese immigrants, Jade Emperor Pagoda or Chua Ngoc Hoang or Phuoc Hai Tu is one the most attractive destinations for tourist in Ho Chi Minh City. It is also known as the Tortoise pagoda.
Tan Son Nhat airport is one of three international airports in Vietnam beside Noi Bai airport in Hanoi and Da Nang airport in Da Nang. This airport plays an important role as a main gate to enter the economic regions of Vietnam.
Chinatown is one of the most attractive destinations for tourist when coming to Ho Chi Minh City due to its unique culture, architecture and cuisine.
Chinatown in Ho Chi Minh has a center area which is popularly known under the name Cho Lon. With a large site which covers entire District 5, parts of District 6, 8, 11, Chinatown becomes very famous because of its special character and its cultural heritage.
Located in a distance of three kilometers from downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Van Thanh Park becomes a wonderful place for visitors who are trying to escape the disturbing noise of the downtown and relax with their family.
Belonging to the lists of four most common types of Vietnam visa on arrival, three month multiple entry visa brings lots of advantages for tourists in need of entering Vietnam by air. With this kind of visa in hand, tourists can enter and exit Vietnam as much as they want during their visa validity.
Some recent articles state that the three month multiple entry business visa is not accepted at Vietnam international airports anymore. At the same time, a big number of Vietnam visa online agencies stop arranging this visa type. This change especially affects most businessmen having high needs of obtaining this 3 month-multiple business visa on arrival. Although applicants can get this visa at an embassy, they still search for an online visa agent capable of providing them this 3 month multiple visa on arrival. Some customers state that there is no Vietnam embassy in their country, some express that they are so familiar with getting their visa by using online service, others just want to avoid complex paperwork.
Binh Quoi Tourist Village includes two main areas: Binh Quoi Tourist Area 1 and Binh Quoi Tourist Area 2, which are on the north for around ten kilometers from the downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Coming there, visitors can find themselves a beautiful view, lots of typical characteristics of the watery areas in South Vietnam, and enjoy some popular food of the local people.
On Christmas Eve 1959, The Caravelle Hotel was inaugurated in a festival with free silver trayed canapés, vintage Champagne, and affability. In fact, the hotel had opened in seven months before, at that time a local newspaper related to public the use of Italian marble and bullet-proof glass. Contemporary reporter also noted its installation of a “stated-of-the-art air-conditioning system and a Berliet private generator”.
Location: Ho Chi Minh Municipal Theatre is located on Dong Khoi Street, Ho Chi Minh City, between the Caravelle and Continental Hotels.
Characteristics: The theatre has a rotating stage and a 800-seat hall and requirements of standards for various artistic form including singing, music, dancing and traditional and modern dramas.
Chosen to be President Ho Chi Minh’s residence and office from May 1958 until his death, a stilt house is located in a large garden at the back of the Presidential Palace is a nice road covered with pebbles and bordered with mango tress accompanied with the omnipresent perfume of jasmine flowers and roses in its site.
The Ao Dai is a Vietnamese traditional outfit, now most commonly worn by women.
At the present, nobody can know the original form of the ao dai. In the past, the graceful two-flapped ao dai in the breeze appeared on the surfaces of the historical Ngoc Lu kettledrum carved a few thousand years ago.