Parks and the outdoors in Ho Chi Minh City

70 parks, gardens, beaches and walks in and around Ho Chi Minh City.

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Au Lac do Brazil
Just to prove that Saigon has everything, here is a Brazilian-style churrascaria (all-you-can-eat restaurant featuring barbecued meat), with live Latin music Tuesday to Saturday. They also have a new outlet in Sky Garden II, Phu My Hung, District 7. It's a larger and less crowded one with usually better service.
Closed · opens 11 amFrom USD30 per person · Wi-Fi
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Barbecue Garden
A barbecue restaurant offering both Vietnamese and international foods.
USD5–7
EatVietnamese restaurant
Bloom Saigon Restaurant
Temporarily closed as of August 2022. Non-profit restaurant run by Aid to Children Without Parents (ACWP) and serves as a culinary training facility. Very nice staff, excellent food, terrace on the 3rd floor. Situated a bit in the North and in a small calm community. Worth to go by foot, 20 mnin walk from the Jade Pagoda.
Closed · opens 11 amVegan options
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Dai Nam Tourist Park
This is one of the largest tourist attractions in Vietnam. It features the Dai Nam Van Hien Temple, an entertainment site, open range zoo, shopping areas, hotels, local and Western cuisine, and the largest man-made mountain range in Vietnam. Costing over 50 billion dong to build, this park is the beginning of mass tourism in Vietnam, although it is aimed at tourists and locals, and comes highly recommended. Transport options to the park are quite convoluted. As the park is new, online information is scarce. According to the locals, it is very much worth a visit, purely just to view the temple.
Adult/child between 1 m and 1.4 m: zoo 80,000/50,000; amusement park 100,000/50,000 dong; waterpark 100,000/60,000 dong; all three 200,000/120,000 dong
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Dam Sen Water Park
Close to the city centre. This water park offers some unique water slide experiences, including the amazing "Space Bowl". Restaurant, health services and animatronic dinosaurs are on the premises.
Mon-Sat 08:30-18:00, Sun and holidays 08:00-19:00Admission is based on height and time of arrival; under 0.8 m free, others 40-110,000 dong (90,000 after 16:00)
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Landmark 81
The Landmark 81 Central Park
The highest tower of Vietnam with 81 floors which is 461.3 m, it has a big mall inside which includes a CGV cinema. Landmark 81 are also surrounded in a complex of apartments as part of Vinhomes' Tan Cang, or Central Park. Access the views by paying for SkyView (top 3 floors; 300k/500k weekdays/weekends, children/elderly half price; 200k for VND students on weekdays) or by patronizing one of the restaurants/cafes/lounges on the upper floors (prices vary, but tend to be 100k+ VND, high for Vietnam but about average for global HCOL cities; these are accessible through the Marriott Autograph Collection hotel by transferring elevators at the hotel's skylobby). There's also reasonably priced local and international food in the food court on the lower level.
Closed · opens 9 amNo entry fees but has parking fees for vehicles
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Museum of Vietnamese History
The museum has a fine collection of Vietnamese antiquities. Read up on Vietnamese history first or you'll have no idea what you're looking at. Outside, the Botanical Gardens are very nice and a good place for a cheap lunch away from the crowds. Six times a day, you can see a 20-minute water puppet show (adult 50,000 dong, child 35,000 dong). It's quite amusing, even for adults.
Daily 08:30-11:30, 13:30-17:0030,000 dong · Heritage listed · Built 1929
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SC VivoCity
In District 7, a large shopping centre with a rooftop garden and a playground to keep children occupied.
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Twenty-Three September Park
Running along Phan Ngu Lao St are a number of parks which fill up with locals before sunset, after work. They play a variety of games which you can participate in: badminton, kicking a shuttlecock and women's group aerobics to music are all very popular, and are great to watch. If you sit down by yourself in the open area near the Ben Thanh market a number of young university age locals will come and ask to practice English with you, this is a great way to spend an evening and the best way to meet intelligent interesting youth, they will question you either individually or in groups and share with you a lot about their country. Beware of those men who want to introduce you to their "sister" who's working as a nurse and wants to move to your country. They will try to make you come into their home so you can reassure their parents, but will actually gamble and cheat at cards with you and/or ask you for money after telling a sad and fake story about some dying relative.
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War Remnants Museum
The museum was opened in a hurry, less than five months after the fall of the South Vietnamese regime. It has moved to new premises with 3 storeys of exhibits and various US military hardware (tanks, jets, helicopters, howitzers) on display outside the building. This disturbing display of man's cruelty during the Vietnam (American) War includes halls full of gruesome photographs, a simulated "tiger cage" prison and jars of deformed foetuses attributed to contamination by Agent Orange. An exhibit on the 3rd floor tells the story of the war journalists from all over the world who documented, and often disappeared or died in the war. Watch out for the amputees who will try to sell you their wares on the museum grounds, though largely their wares take the form of only somewhat overpriced books on historical topics relevant to the museum, and are less of a scam than more of an informal gift shop. The museum is a short walk from Reunification Palace — see the museum pamphlet for a map.
Open daily 07:30-12:00, 13:30-17:00, last admission 16:30Entry 40,000 dong
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ZanZBar
Casual-upscale, the clients tend to come for the great choice of wines-by-the-glass (huge walk-in wine cellar), or for the cocktails (premium brands) and good selection of imported beers. Can remain open after midnight, depending on the number of customers.
Not for the budget crowd
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Banana Pub
Park View. Pool table, darts, friendly staff, beautiful people, loads of food. Stays open late depending on the crowd. Worth a trip from Q1 to experience the expat scene.
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Chill Sky Bar
Sky Bar
Rooftop bar at AB Tower in District 1 along September 23 park. This is the place to see and to be seen. Drinks are expensive at 200,000 dong and up. If you are around the September 23 park at night you will see the lights and hear the music blasting from the top of the AB tower. Look for the spotlights shooting into the sky.
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The Deck Saigon
The only posh restaurant on the banks of the river. Modern fusion cuisine using the local ingredients.
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Vietnamese Language Garden
The school offers one-on-one study,focus on intensive classes to get fluent in Vietnamese in a short time, or 1-2 weeks classes for tourist & homes stay to experience the local lifestyle
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April 30 Park
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Bach Dang Wharf Park
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Bach Tung Diep Park
DrinkBeer garden
Bia Tươi Tiệp Gammer
Hours unclear (Specified as open end. Closing time was guessed.)
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Bãi Cỏ - Trần Nhân Tôn
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Chi Lang Park
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City Garden
59 Ngô Tất Tố
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Common area Aqua 2
Open now · open 24 hours
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Creative Park
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Công Viên Sala
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Công trình cảnh quan Nhà thi đấu Phan Đình Phùng
8 Võ Văn Tần
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Công viên 310A Hưng Phú
310A Hưng Phú
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Công viên Chợ Quán
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Công viên Cầu Rạch Ông
Trần Xuân Soạn
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Công viên Dạ Nam
200 Phạm Thế Hiển
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Công viên Dạ Trạch
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Công viên Hòa Bình
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Công viên Majestic Hotel
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Công viên Phong Châu
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Công viên Phường 2
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Công viên Phường 5
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Công viên SJC Tower
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Công viên Thích Quảng Đức
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Công viên Thương xá Tax
135 Nguyễn Huệ
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Công viên Vinhomes Central Park
Open now · open 24 hours

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