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This exciting Ho Chi Minh city tour is ideal for visitors wanting an overview of Saigon's main areas of attraction. Along the pleasurable drive with your professional guide to Ho Chi Minh City (The Pearl of the Far East), you'll encounter rows of palm trees and coconut trees as well as rice paddy fields in the peaceful countryside.
To many foreigners, Vietnam is synonymous with war. In reality, it's a beautiful nation of kind, peaceful people. Saigon and its nine million residents are at the heart of it all.
The communist Vietnamese won independence after the "Fall of Saigon" in 1975. Many attractions echo that era. The Reunification Palace (formerly the Presidential Palace) is an interesting landmark designed in the 1960s with the help of the Soviets. The tank that crashed through its gates on April 30, 1975, signifying "The Fall," still graces its front lawn.
Known as the "Paris of the Orient," you'll also see the landmark twin towers of the Notre Dame Cathedral, made by the French in true Gothic style with bricks imported from Marseille, France. Postcards to mail? You'll visit the bustling Saigon Central Post Office, built in the 1880s.
You'll then retire to a nice restaurant for lunch before returning to Ho Chi Minh City's peculiar sights. For instance, the War Remnant Museum features an exhibit of photos, planes, tanks, and weapons. Many are relics from the American phase of the Vietnam War and have been on display since the war's end in 1975.
Next, you'll partake in the hustle and bustle of shopping at the indoor Ben Thanh market. This popular marketplace for textiles and handcrafts is one of the earliest surviving structures in Saigon.
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