Ho chi minh city, one of Vietnam's most popular cities. Ho chi minh city is a vibrant modern business center with wide boulevards, charming cultural landscapes, buildings full of emotional appeal and narrow waterways that are full of vitality all the time. From breakfast noodles to a trip to a temple, and then an art tour, ho chi minh city is charming for two days.

On the early

Ben Thanh Market is the largest trading Market in ho chi minh city, where everything from food to daily necessities to handicrafts is available.

▲Authentic pho pho. Are you sure you want one?

Wake up in the morning, in the seaside city market pull a stool, wait a moment, you can enjoy the breakfast - the most abundant features make the heart of grace that must be a Ph ở pho and Ca phe sua da (ice cream) coffee.

▲In the busy market along the waterfront, you can always satisfy your stomach and curiosity

Just steps away from the iconic clock tower in the bincheng market is Ho Chi Minh City's Fine Arts Museum, an elegant colonial building. You can experience different styles of paintings, furniture, sculptures and other works of art, which are inspired by hundreds of years of art. If you are a careful person, this colored glass and floor tile are worth careful study. For art lovers, the building itself is a perfect masterpiece.

▲Look far into the financial tower

Leave the art museum and head to the Bitexco Financial Tower, the city's tallest building, a modern 68-story building. On the Saigon Skydeck you can get a 360 panoramic view of the bustling ho chi minh city.

▲You can find lots of interesting gadgets at your local souvenir shops

Heading north from the Saigon River below the financial tower is the 3A Alternative Art Area. The art district is dotted with cafes, galleries and boutique boutiques, and the alleyways are painted with playful street graffiti -- you can enjoy a classic Tra Mojito at Plantrip Cha teahouse.

In the early afternoon

Keep going along the bustling Ly Tu Trong neighborhood until you reach the commercial center of ho chi minh city.

▲Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica

After lunch, you can walk directly to Notre Dame Cathedral. All the raw materials of this church are from France, and the bricks on the outside wall are from Marseilles, so the red bricks have not faded at all after more than a hundred years, so it has another nickname, called "the red church".

▲The central post office

Across from the church is the Central Post Office. We regard it as a must-see in ho chi minh city, because few post offices can be classified as a tourist attraction, and this post office is such a french-style architectural attraction that almost every tourist will visit. The post office, built in the late 19th century and still in use today, allows people to take pictures, sit and look at everything in the hall.

▲Reunification Palace

Reunification Palace is one of the most important ho chi minh city, because through a unified Palace, it can almost see the whole history of modern Vietnam. The iron gate of the unification palace once witnessed the chariot of the north Vietnamese liberation army when it marched into the presidential palace on April 30, 1975, which witnessed the end of the Vietnam civil war and the unification and prosperity of the country.

▲Communication equipment displayed in an underground passage

The building has been one of the most popular local attractions for decades. If you visit, don't miss the basement, a maze of maps and communications equipment from the last century, one of the most vivid displays of its time.

On the night

▲Through the streets, looking for the story of the old city

If I want to experience the most native taste of this city, I think it is to get on my motorcycle and blend in with the continuous flow of motorcycles in this city. And for nonlocal tourists, the most convenient is to participate in the local motorcycle half-day tour. Join Vespa Adventure's fleet of retro-chic Vespa sheep for your ride. Each motorcycle has a driver to take a passenger on a planned route through the streets.

▲Vietnamese people love riding motorcycles, especially the Vespa

Wear a helmet to ride a motorcycle, throw yourself into the busy street, the busy traffic from all directions, all kinds of vehicles around the busy movement, very close to the local life feeling. I still heard the noise on my helmet, the engine vibrating slightly under my legs, cars roaring past me. In the neon light shuttle, the rapid flow of scenery overwhelmed.

▲夜晚胡志明市街道上的露天酒吧

Cool beer at a seafood grill in District 2, and rock clubs and Bohemian music cafes are worth a visit.

On the early

For centuries, the Cholon has been a popular gathering place for Chinese. The next day we started at Binh Tay Market on the embankment. The smell of breakfast permeates the fashionable streets, and almost all the shops have signs in Chinese. A 19th-century Catholic church stands not far from a Taoist temple and buddhist temple.

▲Street food

Here you can see many buildings full of Chinese style, although it looks a little old, but still lively as before. There are many shops selling traditional cantonese snacks on the embankment. The aroma of various foods attracts every tourist who comes to the embankment.

▲Local temples

There are many temples, incense, people here in a comfortable life, the day running a small business, occasionally come to burn a wick of incense, silently read the appeal, pray for peace, colorful spray painting created the city's most prosperous and beautiful temples.

In the early afternoon

Back in the city center, you can expect to find Propaganda Bistro in many strategies and recommendations, where you can not only taste a variety of specialties from all over the country, but also overlook the beautiful scenery of 30/4 park.

▲Propaganda Bistro餐厅

Walking after dinner is less than 1 km, is the War remnant Museum (War Remnants Museum). Since the 20th century, Vietnam has experienced decades of wars and conflicts. Here you can see shocking historical details. For foreigners who want to know about a country's local conditions and customs, understanding history and war can better integrate you into the city.

▲Museum collections, historical testimony

(Requiem Requiem in the upstairs gallery Exhibition), you can see the war photographer to record the precious historical pictures, these cruel war photographs reminded every visiting tourists, is blood and life to millions of people price war and the reconstruction of the post-war years, live in a peaceful and you are so lucky.

After your visit, enjoy some quiet time at the Saigon Botanic Gardens.

On the night

In the evening we enjoyed a craft beer at Pasteur Street Brewing Company, ho chi minh city's 17th-ranked restaurant. Different from ordinary beer, da lat's coffee beans, rambutan and lemongrass have become the raw materials for brewing. I believe you will drink craft beer completely different from that in China here, which will surely become your most unforgettable beer tour.

▲Enjoy brewed beer with pizza

Quan Ut Ut, an American barbecue restaurant, is famous in the area. In spite of its reputation as an American barbecue restaurant, one of the most fascinating aspects of the restaurant is the roasted coconut -- the charcoal-smoked coconut juice has a delicate, smoky flavor.

▲Quan Ut Ut 的烤肉美食

In addition, southeast Asian flavor and the clever combination of American barbecue, also make every food in this restaurant become the "late night dining hall" in the unforgettable memories.

This is a compact 2-day trip, if you have time, you can better taste ho chi minh city.

This article is excerpted from Vietnam net