Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
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Tips
When you arrive at the airport in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, don't accept the offers from "taxi drivers" that first approaches you. Most of them are not real taxi drivers, but are there to cheat you. Just walk past them, and get into a normal taxi. They are not hard to find.
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Hotels
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Places to see
- Dam Sen Park
- Fine Arts Museum
- Giac Lam Pagoda
- History Museum
- Jade Emperor Pagoda
- Notre Dame Cathedral
- Quan Am Pagoda
- Reunification Palace
- Saigon Central Mosque
- War Remnants Museum
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Restaurants
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French
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Vietnamese
- PHO24 Add a short description here.
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Italian
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Bars
- Allez Boo Add a short description here.
- Blue Gecko Add a short description here.
- Bop Jazz Club Add a short description here.
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Nightclubs
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News from Ho Chi Minh City
- Orchestra concert to introduce top Korean violinist (Nhân Dân)
Korean conductor Lim Jun-o and violinist Paik Jae-jin will perform with the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera in a concert at Ho Chi Minh. City’s Opera House on March 9. - Former HCM university chief win science prize (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - Dr. Phan Thi Tuoi, a computer scientist and former rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, has been named for last year’s Kovalevskaya Prize for her lifetime achievement. - Tran Dinh Thanh Lam (Thailand Outlook Channel)
HO CHI MINH CITY - A Vietnamese film that missed out on the short list for Sunday's Oscars nonetheless offers a glimpse into how Vietnam and the United States are healing their decades-old war wounds, as well as how that war still generates emotional debate.
