Ho Chi Minh City Map, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City Travel Guide

The city’s bia hoi stands offer the best nightlife while the many street-side beer stalls are great for a beer. All you have to do is to grab a stool and table and wait for pitchers of beer which are available at a few pennies a glass. Food here is also good, and practically free. read more

Ho Chi Minh City History

However, a series of Indochina wars erupted right after the surrender of Japan in 1945. By then, Ho Chi Minh already proclaimed the independence of Vietnam from the French. The streets of Saigon became very bloody from the riots. By 1954, through the Geneva agreement, Vietnam was divided into two: south and north. Saigon then became the capital of the south. read more

Ho Chi Minh City Sightseeing

The Reunification Palace is really worth visiting when in Ho Chi Minh City as this was the HQ of the South Vietnamese in their war. The tanks found to the right are the ones that had knocked the gates to indicate the Fall of Saigon on that faithful day, April 30, 1975 to mark the handover of power. read more

Ho Chi Minh City Nightlife

If you have watched the musical Miss Saigon, then you already have an inkling of a typical night in Ho Chi Minh (formerly known as Saigon). During the arrival of the Americans in the 1970s for the Vietnam War, a lot of pubs and bars opened, which eventually led to a very booming nightly entertainment in the city. However, after 1975, the entire situation dramatically changed, and several of these nightspots were forced... read more