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Best time to visit: Feb–Apr
Daily spend ~$50
Vietnam
Limestone bays, lantern towns and breakfast that costs less than a coffee at home. North for drama, centre for charm, south for pace — most first trips run top to bottom.
Vietnam in ten slides
Wikipedia · 3 Sep 2026
Best time to visit Vietnam: Feb–Apr
Where people go in Vietnam
- Hanoi4 days is about right
- Da Nang3 days is about right
- Ho Chi Minh City3 days is about right
- Nha Trang3 days is about right
- Cần Thơ2 days is about right
- Huế2 days is about right
- Qui Nhơn
- Haiphong
- Vinh
- Thái Nguyên
What people go to see in Vietnam
Bến Thành Market is located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam in District 1. The market is one of the earliest surviving structures in the city and an important symbol of the city. Ben Thanh Market is a famous destination for many local and foreign tourists from all around the world.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Jul 2026
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bitexco Financial Tower is a skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At its completion in 2010, it became the tallest building in Vietnam and kept this status until January 2011, when it was surpassed by Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 31 Aug 2026
Lê Minh Phát · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Saigon Central Post Office is a post office in Paris Commune Square, Saigon ward, Ho Chi Minh City, next to the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, the city's cathedral.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 5 Jul 2026
Kevin Rutherford · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Independence Palace, also publicly and officially known as the Reunification Convention Hall or simply Reunification Hall, is a historic landmark and government-owned public hall in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the presidential palace, home and workplace of the president of the Republic of Vietnam.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 13 Aug 2026
Balon Greyjoy · CC0
Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon, officially the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception is a cathedral located in the Saigon ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The cathedral, established by French administrators who originally named it the Church of Saigon, was constructed between 1877 and 1880.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 16 Aug 2026
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Imperial City or Imperial Palace also known as Đại Nội (大內), is a royal enclosure within the walled city of Huế, the former imperial capital of Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty. It contains the palaces that housed the imperial family, as well as shrines, gardens, and offices for mandarins.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 Jul 2026
NguyenThanhBac123 · CC0
The Perfume River is a river that crosses the city of Huế, in central Vietnam. In the autumn, flowers from orchards upriver from Huế fall into the water, giving the river a perfume-like aroma, hence the sobriquet.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 4 Aug 2026
calflier001 · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Thiên Mụ Temple is a historic temple in the city of Huế in Vietnam. Its iconic seven-story Phước Duyên pagoda is regarded as the unofficial symbol of the city, and the temple has often been the subject of folk rhymes and ca dao about Huế.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Jul 2026
Lưu Ly · Public domain
The Tomb of Khải Định, officially Ứng Mausoleum is a tomb built for Khải Định, the twelfth Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam. It features a blend of Vietnamese architecture with Western styles. The tomb was completed in 1931 after 11 years of construction.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 Jul 2026
dronepicr · CC BY 2.0
Tomb of Tự Đức, officially Khiêm Mausoleum, is located in Huế, Vietnam. It is built for the Nguyễn Emperor Tự Đức and took three years to build, from 1864 to 1867. It is divided into a Temple Area and a Tomb Area.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Jul 2026
Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cái Răng Floating Market is a wholesale floating market specializing in the trade of vegetables and fruits on the Cần Thơ River, a distributary of Hậu River, and is a unique tourist attraction in the districts of Cái Răng and Ninh Kiều in Cần Thơ, Vietnam. With a history dating back to the early 20th century, the market emerged as a crucial trading hub.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 28 May 2026
Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cần Thơ Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hậu (Bassac) River, the largest distributary of the Mekong River, in the city of Cần Thơ in southern Vietnam. The bridge is 2.75 kilometres long. It has a 6-lane carriageway measuring 23 metres (76 feet) in width, with 4 lanes for automobile traffic and two lanes for bicycles and motorbikes.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 4 Aug 2026
Tomdoan (talk). Original uploader was Tomdoan at en.wikipedia · Public domain
Can Tho Museum is a museum in Cần Thơ, Vietnam. Situated on the corner of Hoa Binh and Tran Quoc Toan streets it was established in 1976 and has more than 5000 objects and historical relics. The museum acknowledges earlier settlement by the Khmer people as well as the contributions of the Chinese Ming refugees and later arrivals.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 10 May 2024
Daaé · Public domain
The Mekong Delta, also known as the South-western Region or the Western Region, is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries. The Mekong delta region encompasses a large portion of south-western Vietnam, of an area of over 40,500 km2 (15,600 sq mi). The size of the area covered by water depends on the season.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2 Sep 2026
Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Dragon Bridge is a bridge with an arch-beam-wire combination steel structure in the shape of a dragon crossing the River Hàn in Da Nang, Vietnam. It is the world's largest dragon-shaped steel bridge.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 1 Sep 2026
Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marble Mountain Air Facility (MMAF), also known as Da Nang East Airfield, Marble Mountain Army Airfield and Nuoc Man Airfield, was an aviation facility used primarily by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 5 Aug 2026
US_Army_Map_Da_Nang_1969.jpg: 29th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army derivative work: Dragfyre (talk) · Public domain
The Museum of Cham Sculpture is a museum located in Hải Châu District, Đà Nẵng, central Vietnam, near the Han River.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 4 Apr 2026
Unknown author · Public domain
Sơn Trà Mountain, also known as Monkey Mountain, is a mountain and peninsula range located on Sơn Trà Peninsula, in Sơn Trà district, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, overlooking the Bay of Da Nang and the East Sea. Đà Nẵng Port's Tiên Sa Terminal is located at the base of the mountain's western face, as is nearby Tiên Sa Beach.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 16 Aug 2026
Phó Nháy (talk) · Public domain
Đồng Xuân Market is a market in the center district Hoàn Kiếm of Hanoi, Vietnam. Originally built by the French administration in 1889, Đồng Xuân Market has been renovated several times with the latest being in 1994 after a fire that almost destroyed the market.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 20 Mar 2026
Juliana Ng from Singapore · CC BY 2.0
The President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is a mausoleum which serves as the resting place of Vietnamese revolutionary leader and President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 4 Aug 2026
NKSTTSSHNVN · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hoàn Kiếm Lake, also known as Sword Lake or Tả Vọng Lake, is a fresh water lake, measuring some 12 ha in the historical center of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 31 Aug 2026
Cyril Doussin from London, United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Old Quarter is the name commonly given to the historical civic urban core of Hanoi, Vietnam, located outside the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long. This quarter used to be the residential, manufacturing and commercial center, where each street was specialized in one specific type of manufacturing or commerce.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 16 Jun 2026
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0
Văn Miếu, literally translated as Temple of Literature, is a temple dedicated to Confucius in Hanoi, northern Vietnam. The temple was founded and first built in 1070 at the time of Emperor Lý Thánh Tông, and it hosted the Imperial Academy, Vietnam's first national university, from 1076 to 1779. In 1803, The academy was moved to the new capital of Nguyen dynasty in Hue.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 27 Jul 2026
The original uploader was Chuoibk at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Long Sơn Temple is a Buddhist temple in the city of Nha Trang on South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is regarded as one of the main sites in the city, along with Hai Duc Temple.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 22 Nov 2024
Nonvolatil · CC BY-SA 3.0
Po Nagar is a Cham temple tower founded sometime before 781 and located in the medieval principality of Kauthara, near modern Nha Trang in Vietnam. It is dedicated to Yan Po Nagar, the goddess of the country, who came to be identified with the Hindu goddesses Bhagavati and Hariti, and who in Vietnamese is called Thiên Y Thánh Mẫu.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 1 Aug 2026
Tervlugt · CC BY 3.0
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Guides about Vietnam
Vietnam with kids by age band and region, with the e-visa rule for children, the month each third of the country works and the beaches that suit toddlers.
Priya Nair · 3 Sep 2026
Vietnam has three climates and no single best month. Why October is superb in Hanoi and the worst choice for Hoi An, and the window that works everywhere.
Arif Rahman · 2 Sep 2026
Vietnam is 1,650km long with three climates that never agree, and most first itineraries ignore that. What to fix, what a day costs, and the road rule.
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