Day 1 – Ho Chi Minh Arrival –> Ben Tanh Market –> Water Puppet Show
Day 2 – Cu Chi Tunnels + Ho Chi Minh City tour
Day 3 – Cai Be Vinh Long tour
Day 4 – Ho Chi Minh –> Kuala Lumpur
Frankly, 4 days in Ho Chi Minh is more than enough for me. But if you really have several days to spend in Vietnam, I do suggest Mui Ne or Dalat for beach & sand dunes!
Day 1
If you want to find out about Ben Tanh Market or Water Puppet Show, you can find the information here at my previous post –> A Budget 4 Days in Ho Chi Minh
I booked all the tours from The Sinh Tourist website.
Day 2
Cu Chi Tunnels
Cu Chi Tunnel is worth visiting because of all the stories behind the tunnels. But if you’re expecting something special, you may have to opt out.
But it’s quite interesting and amazing to believe that there are people actually lives in the tunnels! It’s definitely different from the one that I went in Cappadocia, Turkey.
This is what the people eat back then during the war time, it’s something from the tree? But it taste like Ubi (Potatoes) 😀
You can choose to enter the tunnels, it’s about 100 meters long? But no worries as between 20, 40, 60, 80 meters you can exit.
WARNING: The tunnels is really really slender.
Ho Chi Minh City Tour
We were supposed to take the mini bus for a half day tour around Ho Chi Minh, but then we missed our mini tour bus! So what we decided to walked around and do the sightseeing on our own and eventually we met our mini tour bus at the last stop & catch the mini tour bus back to Sinh Tourist office. 😀
So these are the few places that you can visit in Ho Chi Minh City:
- Notre Dome Cathedral
- General Post Office
- Reunification Palace
- War Remnants Museum
As you can see from the map above, all 4 sights are actually few streets away, so it’s doable by foot, just get a map from your Hotel! Notre Dome Cathedral & General Post Office is just next to each other, so you can visit both at the same time.
Notre Dome Catheral
General Post Office
Reunification Palace
War Remnants Museum
War Remnants Museum is quite interesting to visit, it primarily contains exhibits relating to the Vietnam War, but also includes many exhibits relating to the first Indochina War involving the French colonialists.
Day 3
CAI BE VINH LONG
MOTOR BIKES!!
Crossing the roads in Ho Chi Minh is pretty challenging! HAVE FUNS! xD
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I heard that we can use ringgit there. Is it true? Or do i need to change my money to usd?
Um, nope, you can use USD but mainly we are using vietnamese dong, you can exchange ringgit to dong in Malaysia too before you visit there 🙂
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Have been there once before when I was young and I remember some of the historical places. Yet to be back there again – hopefully sometime soon 🙂
Haven’t been to Ho Chi Minh before, will bookmark this post for my travel reference 🙂
there’s so much to see in Ho Chi Minh and I love those historical places they still upkeep so well. great for tourism
Ho Chi Minh is a lovely place to explore many historical places and even for shopping. We went there during their New year time and dint realize the entire palce is closed for 5 days.
I’ve been to Ho Chi Minh before. I likes the food a lot. Should definitely go back to check it out. 🙂
Congratulations sienny! Keep up the good work!
love your outfit! i will go for chi chi tunnel, seems interesting, hope i can fit inside. haha.
I’ve been to all these places too! Great that you managed to cover most of the places
How much fun you had! Missing the mini bus proved to be an adventure for you guys. I can’t wait to head to Ho Chi Minh myself!
The War Museum look like an interesting place to visit. Always wanted to check out the death railroad in the area too to check out the skulls.
nice short and direct stories on ho chi minh. tunnels wont fit me. hehe
Vietnam is one of my visit destination as well! Thanks for the write up itinerary of Ho Chi Minh! The tunnel is really so small and slender haha ><
Wow! thanks for this detailed travel sharing on HCMC 🙂 Missed my stay there after reading your post 🙂 cheers, siennylovesdrawing
Wow! thanks for this detailed travel sharing on HCMC 🙂 Missed my stay there after reading your post 🙂 cheers, siennylovesdrawing
The General Post office is lovely.. I must say but I still haven’t found the pulling factor for me to want to visit Ho Chi Minh.. I think I prefer to visit Hanoi there… as I am not to fond of war/political history but rather other history
I’m going to visit with my friends end of this year!
You just provided a great info for me =)
i been Ho Chi Minh before….so many motorcycle there…feel scary on that time!!
Vietnam is a place i wish to go since few years ago, hope i can be there some day. And I love Vietnam food very much too…
I had been heard Ho Chi Minh this place before but my cousin been visit there. There’s a lot of motorcycle on my goodness so scary O.O
Wow thanks for your great sharing. Gonna jot it down and visit it next time! Hehehe
Ho Chi Minh is a nice place to explore and the food is good. 4D3N is just nice for a small trip to Ho Chi Minh.
Not yet been to Ho Chi Minh…your travelog makes me feel like booking tickets now!
I haven’t been to Ho Chi Minh but I have visited Hanoi before. Totally agree with your last point, motorbikes are scary, we have great trouble trying to cross the road.
i heard that this place is full of pickpockets and snatch thieves, is it true? because i was planning to go ho chi minh too, but kinda worried 😦
Everywhere can be full of pickpockets and snatch thieves, even Malaysia is not safe too, I think we should know how to protect ourself, just don’t expose your monetary & carry a small bag. 😀 ***The motorbikes can be more scary than the pickpockets. xD