Saigon Bar Guide: Where to Drink in Ho Chi Minh City, Area by Area
Most visitors search for a Saigon bar and end up on Bui Vien Street. Bui Vien is loud, cheap and fun for one night, but it is only…
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Most visitors search for a Saigon bar and end up on Bui Vien Street. Bui Vien is loud, cheap and fun for one night, but it is only…
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Most visitors land in Ho Chi Minh City with one sandwich on their list: banh mi. That is the right place to start, but the Saigon sandwich story…
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There’s a rhythm to the middle of the day in Ho Chi Minh City that no guidebook fully prepares you for. Around noon the sun turns the pavement…
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There’s a specific kind of Thursday that only happens in one courtyard in District 1. The gate at 74 Hai Bà Trưng swings open onto what used to…
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Ask ten travel YouTubers how to spend four days in Ho Chi Minh City and you will get ten different answers built around the same handful of landmarks.…
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There is a particular kind of quiet that precedes a Saigon opening now, and it is not the quiet of indifference. It is the quiet of a city…
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As the equatorial sun dips below the Saigon River, Ho Chi Minh City trades its daylight fever for something cooler, louder, and infinitely more seductive. The daytime swarm…
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Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon sits directly on the Saigon River at 8-15 Ton Duc Thang Street, in the heart of District 1, close enough to Nguyen Hue, Dong…
Read → The blocks around the Sheraton Saigon Grand Opera Hotel at 88 Dong Khoi make up the most walkable eating-and-drinking patch in Ho Chi Minh City. Within a 10–15 minute stroll…
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