Airport

Tan Son Nhat International

• Can use taxi to get to city center 
  • Can be around 131,652 vnd
  • 20 min round 
• Can take local bus 
  • Bus no. 109
  • One way ticket cost 20,000vnd 
  • Purchase ticket at the airports ticket booth or onboard the bus but can only be local currency 
  • 45 min trip
  • Can take it back to the airport at ben thanh bus station and Saigon bus station.

Places to eat

• Binh Tay Market 
  • Street food 
  • Open 10am – 8pm
  • One of the largest and oldest, established in the 1880s 
• Ben Thanh Market 
  • Located in the center of the city 
  • Open 8:30am -8pm 
  • At 6pm the main hall shuts down and 3 thriving night markets open 

Your main tourist area is gonna be District 1

Things to do 

• 42 Nguyen hue 
  • Walking street 
• Cafe apartment
  • Located at 42 Nguyen Hue, an apartment building in which people converted their spaces to various cafes and shops
  • Fee to use elevator but some shops will reimburse you. You can also just use the stairs like I did
  • Helpful tip alert: If you start at the Cafe Apartment you can walk your way down 42 Nguyen Hue and reach the statue of Ho Chin Minh, the Central Post Office, Notre Dame, and finish at Tan Dinh Church
• Giac Lam Pagoda 
  • Oldest temple 1744
  • Means “ feel the woods”
• Tan Dinh Curch 
  • Big pink church 
  • Not much to see but it is really pretty 
• Central office 
  • Post office designed by Gustavo Eiffel 
• Bui Vien street 
  • Good nightlife and food 
• Mekong Delta 
  • Floating markets 
  • 2 hours outside the city 
  • Done in a tour 
• Cu Chi Tunnels 
  • Outside of the city 
  • Cost around 100,000 VND
  • Recommend a tour guide for best experience
• Pho’s An Hoi Quran Pagoda 
  • Dates back to 1902 
• Ho Thi Ky flower market 
  • In district 10, biggest in the region 
  • Can reach it from Ben Thanh market 
  • Open all day, busiest time is midnight to 3am, and dawn
  • In the middle of the market is a Cambodian market where you can buy traditional soup from a lady who’s been there 40 years