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Half-day HO CHI MINH CITY TOUR

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 4 hours

Departs: Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnam’s biggest & busiest city, where modernity blends with history to fascinating effect. It is home to a treasure-trove of historical delights dating from Chinese invasion period to French-colonial Indochina and through to the infamous Vietnam War. This tour will take you to the historical highlights, whilst giving you facts that you wouldn’t have learned in history class!

Highlights:
- Admire the classical French-colonial architecture of the 19th-century buildings, including Notre Dame Cathedral and the City Centre Post Office
- Wander the vast halls of the beautifully preserved Reunification Palace
- Visit one of the oldest Chinese temples in China Town - built by the first -Chinese settlers and still used as an important place of worshipping

What's Included

Bottled drinking water

English speaking guides (other languages available upon request with surcharge)

Entrance fees

Transfer and transportation as per itinerary

Travel insurance

What's Not Included

Personal expenses such as: shopping, telephone, beverage, etc.

Tipping for local guides

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 5
CHILD: Age: 6 - 10
ADULT: Age: 11 - 120

Additional Info

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Free for children 0-5 years old ; 50% off for children 6-10 years old
Maximum 1 child accompanied 1 adult, the 2nd child will pay the adult price.
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Free for children 0-5 years old ; 50% off for children 6-10 years old
Maximum 1 child accompanied 1 adult, the 2nd child will pay the adult price.
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City is the largest, busiest and most exciting city in Vietnam. It is also filled with intrigue and culture. Ho Chi Minh City is considered as a “blending mixture of culture” city in Vietnam. You can discover a lot of interesting things through people’s daily life. Founded and developed over 300 years, today, Ho Chi Minh City is a fascinating tourist spot with various cultural and historical features

• Admission Ticket Free

War Remnants Museum

Operated by the Ho Chi Minh City government, an earlier version of this museum opened on September 4, 1975, as the Exhibition House for US and Puppet Crimes.
In 1995, following the normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States and end of the US embargo a year before, the references to "war crimes" and "aggression" were dropped from the museum's title as well; it became the War Remnants Museum

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

The Independence Palace

Independence Palace, also publicly known as Reunification Convention Hall , built on the site of the former Norodom Palace, is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the home and workplace of the President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. During the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, it was the site of the end of the Vietnam War, when a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed through its gates.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon is a cathedral located in the downtown of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established by French colonists who initially named it the Church of Saigon (French: l'Eglise de Saïgon), the cathedral was constructed between 1863 and 1880. The name Notre-Dame Cathedral has been used since 1959. It has two bell towers, reaching a height of 58 meters (190 feet).

• Admission Ticket Free

Ba Thien Hau Temple

Thien Hau Pagoda in Cho Lon - a Chinese-style temple located on Nguyen Trai Street in Cho Lon (China Town) - District 5, dedicated to Thien Hau, the Lady of the Sea, also known as “Mazu” (“Tian Hou” in Chinese).

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Central Post Office

Saigon Central Post Office is a post office in the downtown Ho Chi Minh City, near Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, the city's cathedral. The building was constructed when Vietnam was part of French Indochina in the late 19th century. It counts with Gothic, Renaissance and French influences. It was constructed between 1886 and 1891 and is now a tourist attraction

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Our last stop is Vietnamese lacquerware factory where you can observe the process of making these traditional Vietnamese products.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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