Visit Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam

Join Shepherd entertainment on a trip to visit Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

We go on towards the south, towards the former capital. The former Saigon has been called Ho Chi Minh since 1975 and if we don’t know it from anywhere, we must have heard it from the musical entitled Miss Saigon. It lies on the south of the country only 20 kilometers from the border of Cambodia, but 1760 kilometers from the capital of today, Hanoi, with which is linked with railways and public roads. Over 6 million people live on this 2000 square kilometers. Pagoda construction is as typical of Vietnam as China or Japan. A technical book of far east architecture writes the main buildings of the Buddhist temples are the main hall and the Pagoda. These buildings stand on a square courtyard in which with a covered quarter, a district validate of the medieval adulatory. An inner gate leaders into the courtyard. The house of reading took people the hall of teaching, the repository of holy books and relics, bell hall, and priest and monks sleeping halls belong to these group of buildings. Offices, official and farm buildings, store houses, dining rooms and a lot of the other various sized establishments completed the building complex which was arranged following the Chinese pattern. It's typical of Saigon that among the Asian Pagodas we can find more French style buildings than other parts of the country. Buddhist believers often by songbirds in cages. They're sold near the temples and had a significance that believers are allowed to let them fly away. That’s paying off the good actions for that day. There's a shocking members of bikers and motorcyclist. The proportion is the following: 3 million motor bikes and 400,000 cars. Today, the building could have been built for the Indo-Chinese French governor, it's called Palace of reunification. After the French left the country, it became the Vietnamese Prime Minister’s residence, he called it the Palace of Independence. In 1962, the building suffered such serious damage that it had to be reconstructed almost entirely. The new 20,000 square meter building was planned by Nego Vietti. In the park, we can see the famous tank that broke through the gates of the palace on the 30th of April 1975. This is the end of the Vietnam war. The ornate palace built by the French between 1901 and 1908 is used today as the town council and that’s why it can't be visited inside. The building is called Hotel David. We may not need to go to the main post office, but the building is so beautiful that is worth it just to take a look. There's life in the streets, motorcyclist site some pedestrians hurry home to do their business. But there are those who sleep peacefully even in this chaos. Notre Dame Cathedral was built by French between 1877 and 1883. it's one of the one most beautiful Christian churches in Vietnam. In front of it, the statute of Virgin can be seen. Ho Chi Minh is famous for its markets too. Vien Thanh is the best known marketplace in the city. Its façade built by the French has become the symbol of Saigon. In front of it and around about, Tran Nguyen Hai, equestrian statue can be found in a modern pedestal. The stall is selling vegetables, fruits, and flowers are very exotic. There's a lot of sunshine and humidity which are both favorable for growing plants. The jewel of the flower markets is the orchid which has several shapes and colors. At the stalls of the fruit sellers best known fruits are for sale, such as rambutan, lychee, pomelo, mango, carambola, kumquat, papaya, and avocado, from which unusual works of fine art are made. Cu Chin history part is a multi-level system of towns, which is 200 kilometers long. The establishment lying 70 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon is now a museum. The Vin Muk tunnels were dug by country people to bright out the bombings 515 to 20 meters deep under the ground. Cu chi tunnels were built by soldiers so that they can attack the enemies from there. In the visitor center, a film in English shows how the tunnels were built and how people lived, ate and debated them. We can see archive records made by correspondence. We can walk along the corridors and look at the rooms. The corridors had been widened so that tourist can enter. One of the strategies used to be that big and tall American soldiers got stuck in the near corridors through which small figured Vietnamese could pass easily. At the military workshop, we can buy souvenirs and in the local range, we can tryout some weapons at that time for a sizeable fee. The sap of the rubber tree is the basic material of rubber production. The seeds of the original Latin-America tree was smuggled at southeast Asia by Henry Whitman. The trees which can be as high as 40 meters are suitable for rubber production from the age of 5 and 6. the bark of the tree is ripped up with a special knife. Along the cut, running in a spiral shape, the sap of the tree drips down into a small pot fixed to the tree.