Ho Chi Minh City Tour

Posted by lheavenice 1 February 06, 2018

Ho Chi Minh City Tour

So starts our day 2 for our short vacation in Ho Chi Minh. Our first agenda for the day was breakfast as we were already famished from yesterday's walking around the city. We had breakfast at Huong Vy and ordered Omelettes to give us that needed energy for the day.

Our itinerary for the day were the following:

Notre-dame Cathedral
Saigon Central Office
Independe Palace
War Remnants Museum
Tao Dan Park

We were supposed to ride Bus 19 to our first destination for our city tour but when we checked walking directions to Notre-Dame Cathedral it was just a 15-20 minute walk from the restaurant. So we decided to walk on foot and used the map we screenshot on Google maps to guide to our first destination.

And since we were going to our destination on foot, mandatory selfies and street photography are in order.

After a 20 - 30 min walk, we finally arrived on our first stop - the Notre-dame Cathedral of Saigon.

With just a 3 min walk from the Cathedral is the Saigon Central Post Office. It's located at the right side right across the Cathedral.

Here are some of our pics we took at the Saigon Central Post Office.

Our next stop was the Independence Palace which was another 10 minute walk. But actually if you walk towards the right from Saigon Central Post Office you'd see the Independence Palace at the back of the cathedral.

Entrance fee to the Independence Palace is at 30,000 VND per person. When you get inside, you'd see conference halls for viewing purposes only. And the 2nd level was off limits. I'd say that 30,000 VND is quite expensive for just viewing the place.

We were supposed to go to the War Remnants Museum and the Tao Dan Park but I was already exhausted from walking all day and felt like I was about to catch a cold. We decided to go back home to rest.

The next day we just spent roaming around Pham Ngu Lao road and did some shopping at the Saigon Square and Cho Ben Than.