Private Walking Tour: Discover Ho Chi Minh City's Historic Landmarks & Local Lifestyle

Embark on a private walking tour of Ho Chi Minh City’s historic landmarks and immerse yourself in the local lifestyle. Explore Ben Thanh market, City People’s Committee Building, Opera House, Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral, Central Post Office, and choose between War Remnants Museum or The Independence Palace for the final stop.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Ben Thanh Market - I’ll walk you through the market along with informative story and if you like some rumor about the place too.
  • People’s Committee Building - For the second location, i will guide you through the building with pictures and story about it which is one of the most famous buildings in Sai gon
  • Saigon Opera House (Ho Chi Minh Municipal Theater) - You may have heard about few Opera house around the world and yes in Sai gon we have one too.
  • Central Post Office - Here you’ll heard about the untold story in this place.
  • Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral - The history of this place not just about the brick or the bell. Join the tour, you’ll have the chance to know more about this place.
  • War Remnants Museum - If you’re into the Viet Nam war history, this last stop is the one for you. This museum will let you feel the intension of the war not just by your eyes but also your hearing, touching and smelling. You will have another point of view about what happened during that time.
  • The Independence Palace - If you don’t find the war museum is your taste you can choose this location for your last stop instead. This palace will also told you a story about what happened in Viet Nam but it’ll focus more about architecture, feng shui and culture.
What's Included
  • Tea and coffee
  • Complimentary pick-up and drop off at your accommodation in districts 1, 3, 4, 5, and 10
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Any pickup location outside 1km from Ben Thanh market will be charge with 10$ per customer
Additional Information

Your local guide will pick you up at your accommodation then by taxi go to the first location of the tour which is “Ben Thanh market”. From here walk with us, taking a look inside the market history also the lifestyle of Vietnamese people from how we bargain to how to choose fresh food. After leaving Ben Thanh market behind, “City People’s Committee Building” is next and then history not on Wikipedia of this building will be given as a story. Then take a walk down the Nguyen Hue Avenue to visit the “Opera House” - third location. Later, your guide will let you try Vietnamese specialty is the “Coconut coffee”. With the power of coffee, take a stroll you will see the beauty of “Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral” next to it is “Central Post Office” and hear untold story, mystery and the precious gem of Central Post Office. In the end you can choose either “War Remnants Museum” or “The Independence Palace” for the last stop. Then your local guide will book taxi, go with you back to the hotel.

Location
Ben Thanh Market
Đường Lê Lai
Traveler need to go to the South Gate of Ben Thanh market. Our guide will wait for you already.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Sayujp81
Aug 10, 2024
Very nice and informative tour of HCM - This is a wonderful tour of the city. The spots chosen are well curated and represented the history and culture of Ho Chi Minh City very well. The guide Ben was very good and engaging, relaying facts and historical information about the city. The trip to the Independence Palace was the highlight as it told a lot of the modern history of Vietnam and where the country is right now. I would recommend this tour if you are in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Lore_b
Aug 9, 2024
Super guide Ben ! - Great tour with Ben ! Lot of learning and an excellent time ! Visits, coffee, museums, all great ! Thanks a lot !
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Lore
Aug 8, 2024
Super guide Ben ! - À great tour with Ben ! He was fantastic and I did learn lot of things about the City, the history and people ! Thank you very much for such a wondeful morning in HCMC !!
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Libbep
Jul 28, 2024
Kick off your Viet Nam trip with this tour! - Travelling solo. Day 1 in Viet Nam, went on the street market and history tour with Ben. He was the best! Easy going with excellent English, super knowledgeable, happy to take photos (he’s a pro at this) and answer all my questions. Highly recommended Magic Karp, i wish i had time to do more! Its a great way to ease yourself into the culture if you haven’t been in the country before. It was also my birthday and Ben shouted me a Moon Cake with our coconut coffee (seriously delicious but don’t say yum! 😉) Thanks mate 👍🏼
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Davemd5296gc
Jul 19, 2024
Walking tour - Ben was a wealth of knowledge resulting in a great tour guide. We Highly recommend this walking tour as first timers in Vietnam. The coconut iced coffee was unbelievable
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Meganl2396
Jun 26, 2024
Great overview, history & culture. - The four hours spent with our guide Ben gave us great insight into historical landmarks and the current streetscape and culture of Saigon. Thoroughly recommend.
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Mary_m
Apr 17, 2024
Interesting! - We had the pleasure of a young guide called Robert. We set off to explore District 1. First stop the markets which were a lot of fun! Throughout our tour we visited and learned about many buildings / icons of Ho Chi Minh. We had the fun experience of visiting a local coffee shop called Cong to have iced coffee with coconut milk - we would never have found this place ourselves ! Last stop was the war museum. This was an emotional experience but not to be missed - a great history lesson on Vietnam. Robert was a lovely young man, passionate about Ho Chi Minh and his country. A young company I believe and one to support.
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Abhishek_g
Apr 14, 2024
Casey Le was great and tour was detailed - Great tour ,Casey Le was great at explaining things and very detailed knowledge about the city and its landmarks.
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Vk177
Mar 3, 2024
Learning a little about Ho Chi Minh - The trip was just as described. Our guide Ben was very knowledgeable, enthusiastic, flexible and fun. He allowed us to stop as many times as we wanted or needed to take photos. His English was perfect and he took time to answer every question we had and to recommend other things we could do. The tour its self covered many of the must see places in District 1. Would definitely recommend as their communication is great, they were punctual and the our guide was first rate. The company allowed us to book on very short notice.
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Roycez2018
Mar 2, 2024
Highly recommend this tour! - This tour was so amazing! I looked at so many other day tours and was so pleased we went with this one. Larry our guide was amazing his knowledge and insights were fascinating. We loved his sense of humour and warmth. He created a relaxed no pressure environment. Cannot recommend this tour enough, especially if you want to do a small group tour that allows you to do the sights in your own time. Thanks so much Larry!
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