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The Best Rooftop Bars in Ho Chi Minh City

Which rooftops are worth the price, which view you are actually buying, and when to go up.

5 min

Ho Chi Minh City Nightlife: Where to Go

Backpacker street, craft beer district, rooftops and sidewalk beer. Four different evenings, and they do not mix.

4 min

Ben Thanh Market: What It Is Good For

Saigon's best-known market is a tourist market, and knowing that is what makes it useful.

4 min

Getting Around Ho Chi Minh City

Grab for nearly everything, a new metro line that helps less than you would hope, and a heat that decides more than the map does.

4 min

Best Things to Do in Ho Chi Minh City

The short list, led by the two places that will shape the rest of your trip, plus the quieter half of the city most visitors skip.

4 min

Ho Chi Minh City Travel Guide for First-Timers

Bigger, hotter and more commercial than Hanoi, and the place the war is hardest to look away from. How to read Saigon on a first visit.

5 min