At 9 a.m. we will pick you up at your hotel and discuss our individual daily routine.
The tour could start, for example, at the former Presidential Palace, where the Vietnam War ended 35 years ago when a Viet Minh tank broke through the main gate. Today, the communist government calls the former presidential building the "Palace of Reunification". Has something that belongs together really grown together?
We walk through the French colonial center of Saigon with the cathedral "Notre Dame", visit the main post office designed by Gustave Eiffel, see the opera, which once served as a parliament, the neoclassical city hall "Hotel de Ville" and the colonial hotel "Continental". , in which "The Quiet American" once resided.
These colonial "leftovers" are dwindling in the shadows of the high-rise new hotels and expensive office towers that have made Saigon a small cosmopolitan city. A gigantic demonstration, on the one hand, to say: "We've made it." On the other hand, urban planning sins that have already been committed hundreds of times in other cities.
As a contrast, we visit the Thien Hau Pagoda, built in Chinese style, one of the oldest and perhaps most beautiful pagodas in the city. After a flying visit to a master of calligraphy, we stroll through the district of traditional medicine and taste herbs, berries and roots.
Then discover with us the culinary diversity of the city according to your own personal preferences. Strengthened by this, we continue through the pulsating streets and alleys of Chinatown to the Nghia Nhuan Pagoda, which has not yet been discovered by the
masses of tourists. The community leader is looking forward to a visit and invites you to a cup of tea.
Binh Tay Market is the largest market in Cho Lon. The range of goods and their presentation are a sensual experience of a special kind. We drink freshly squeezed, delicious fruit juices at Grandmother Nam's.
At the end of the tour, at 4 p.m., we drink coffee in a beautiful ambience, which we find in a hidden garden cafe.
