One day in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A day through Ho Chi Minh City’s best-known sights that lie close together: Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Paris Commune Square, Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History, Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens and Tan Dinh church. 6 stops, about 3.5 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Museum of Ho Chi Minh CityMuseum · On the map
- Paris Commune SquareSquare · 0.4 km on from Museum of Ho Chi Minh City · On the map
- Saigon Notre-Dame BasilicaCathedral · 0.1 km on from Paris Commune Square · On the map
- Ho Chi Minh City Museum of HistoryMuseum · 1.1 km on from Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica · On the map
- Saigon Zoo and Botanical GardensZoo or aquarium · 0.5 km on from Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History · On the map
- Tan Dinh churchTemple or shrine · 1.5 km on from Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens · On the map
6 stops, 4.7 km on foot along the streets: about 1 h 1 min of walking.
More for Ho Chi Minh City
- Things to do in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · 26 places to see, led by Landmark 81 and Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica
Photo credits
- Museum of Ho Chi Minh City: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Paris Commune Square: son do, CC BY 2.0
- Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History: Nguyễn Thanh Quang, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens: Hoangvantoanajc, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Tan Dinh church: Suicasmo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.