The largest city of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), named after the leader of the Communist Party Ho Chi Minh, who led the Vietnamese people in the fight against the United States and France, is "the heart and soul of Vietnam." Megapolis (population of about six million people) keeps millennial features and traditions of the country and does not allow it to lose its uniqueness and originality. To get a better and closer knowledge of Vietnam, it's just necessary to visit Ho Chi Minh City, its spiritual capital.

Initially, it was a small Cambodian fishing village Prey-Nokor (Prey Nokor) .Many centuries before the arrival of the Vietnamese, the Khmers lived in it .In the 17th century Prey-Nokor became almost the main Khmer trading port .And then began the resettlement of the Vietnamese, who practically isolated the Khmers from a weakened war with Thailand, Cambodia, which did not stand up against this loss of the region, renamed Saigon .In the years 1887-1901 gg .Saigon is the capital of the "French Indochina" (French colony), and in 1955-1975 .- the capital of South Vietnam .1976 .as a result of the unification of the country and the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, was marked by the renaming of the city in Ho Chi Minh City .

Today it is a popular tourist center, where a lot of interesting museums, theaters, the oldest zoo in the world, colorful pagodas, the famous Kuti tunnels and the historic part of the city, decorated with beautiful wide boulevards and buildings of the colonial French era. In Ho Chi Minh City, the national traditions of Chinese, Vietnamese and Western European cultures are mixed and organically combined, making it very attractive for tourists to travel here.

After that, the military clashes stopped, Vietnam united, and the power passed to the Communist Party.

You can visit the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Saigon in the colonial center of the city, on Paris Square, the younger brother of the Notre Dame Cathedral. This is a magnificent temple, erected in 1877 by the French colonialists. The red brick building in the neo-Romanesque style looks very exotic in the Asian Ho Chi Minh City.

Excellent and fun you can relax in the amusement park of Dam-Sheen, see a small copy of the Jacques-Vienne pagoda, a bird garden, a show of dolls, visit the Royal Garden of Nam-Tu, water park or sports center. Also in Ho Chi Minh City it will be interesting to visit the zoo and the botanical garden, get acquainted with rare species of trees and plants, birds and animals, eerie reptiles.

Ho Chi Minh City is a city strolling along which you endlessly dive into its vain life, visiting its sights, squares, parks, shopping centers and Bien Tan market or sitting in a cafe with a cup of coffee and enjoying the stunning spicy aromas of oriental spices, all the delicacies and haze of street brazier.