Famous for: Rivers, Lakes, Mountains
Hanoi is the perfect thwart for the seething mass of humanity that is Ho Chi Minh City. With a population of four million and a more refined style than its southern counterpart, Hanoi is the cul...
Famous for: Prisons, Museums
Maison Centrale in Hanoi, also well-known as Hoa Lo Prison and the ‘Hanoi Hilton’ housed Vietnamese revolutionaries and American POW during the Vietnam War. The fortification was onc...
Famous for: Thu Le Park and Zoo
Previously known as Bachthao Gardens, Hanoi Zoo is home to about 800 animals with over 90 different species on exhibition, counting big cats, monkeys and reptiles. The zoo is situated within Thu...
Famous for: Public Museum
Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi offers an insight into the 54 different ethnic groups of Vietnam in an effort to protect cultural heritage and endorse socio-cultural diversity within the co...
Famous for: Wedding ceremony,Family life, Fashion and Life changing rituals
The Vietnam Women’s Museum delivers a marvellously presented accolade to the women of Vietnam across the ages. There are loads of historical contexts alongside a wealth of information on t...
Famous for: Museum, Tunnels, Scenic Beauty
The Cu Chi Tunnels are chiefly a huge war museum offering visitors a sneak peak at the subversive life of Viet Cong-era soldiers. Comprising more than 120km of tunnels, they were first started a...
Famous for: Garden, Amusement Park, Temples
Giac Lam Pagoda, built in 1744, is the oldest Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City and as such was listed as a momentous historical site by the Vietnamese Department of Culture in 1988. Situated ...
Famous for: Gardens, Zoo, Amusement Park
Founded more than 100 years ago, Ho Chi Minh City Zoo and Botanical Gardens are one of the oldest zoos in the world, inugurated in 1865 by French botanist JB Louis Pierre. There are presently mo...
Famous for: Churches, Museum, Scenic Beauty
In a quiet corner of lively downtown Ho Chi Minh City stands Notre Dame Cathedral, the one enduring monopoly of Catholicism in the mainly Buddhist Vietnam. Built in the late 1880s by French colo...
Famous for: Museums, sculpture
With their roots dating back as far as 192 AD, Vietnam's aboriginal Cham people lived an Indian way of life in both culture and language. The Cham Museum in Danang is devoted to this period ...