Vietnam day tour Saigon

Highlights:

• Private day tour in Saigon with guide, car and driver

• See the colonial Cathedral, Post Office, Opera House

• Visit the War Remnants Museum and FITO Museum

• Browse Ben Thanh Market

• ‘cyclo’ tour through Chinatown

Overview:

Vietnam day tour Saigon - this full day private tour of Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City takes you to a many of the city’s main sites and museums as well as several off-the-beaten track locations. You’ll take a cyclo tour through the buzzing Chinatown area, learn about traditional medicines at the FITO Museum, explore Vietnam’s past at one of the museums and take a walking tour among historic buildings and hidden laneways

Description:

The Best Ho Chi Minh City Tour

Pick up from your Saigon hotel by private car and local guide and tour the city’s most famous highlights! Admire the Central Post Office, an imposing building designed by Gustav Eiffel and built by the French in the 1890s, with a great vaulted and domed interior, a map of the colony and another of the telegraphic lines across to Cambodia, the original wooden telephone booths, and a stall selling collectible stamps. See the former Presidential Palace where, on the morning of the 30 April 1975, a North Vietnamese tank crashed through the gates of what was then the Independence Palace, and brought to an end the bloody Vietnam war. Visit Notre Dame Cathedral, established by the French for their colonists in Saigon – all the materials for its construction were shipped over from France. Also tour the popular War Remnants Museum, a fascinating, if disturbing, exhibition of the tools and effects of the Vietnam war. Take lunch at a local restaurant then stroll around Chinatown and admire the exotically decorative Thien Hau pagoda, dedicated to the goddess of the sea – Chinese sailors would call here to give thanks for their safe arrival in Vietnam, and light huge incence coils. Visit the FITO Museum, Vietnam’s first traditional medicine museum displaying an amazing collection of 3,000 items relevant to the development of traditional Vietnamese medicine, implements used to prepare indigenous herbs, objects commonly found in traditional pharmacies as well as ancient books and documents on traditional Vietnamese medicine.Return to your Saigon hotel at the end of a fascinating day!

Price includes:

• English speaking local guide
• Private car and driver
• Entrance fees as mentioned above
• Lunch
• Hotel pick-up and drop-off

Not included:

• Meals, entrance fees not mentioned above
• Personal expenses
• Travel insurance
• Gratuities to driver/guide

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