Started to be built in 1886 and completed in 1891 under architect Villedieu's design, this magnificent building was located on a high hillock by the side of the municipal cathedral with Hai Ba Trung Avenue in the back. The building's front side was adorned with rectangle squares inscribed with the names of telegraphic and electric inventors together with figures of men and women wearing laurel wreaths. A big clock was hung over the dome of the building.

Cho Lon or China town over here is a bustling town for more than 5 million Chinese inhabitants. China town was set up by the end of 18th century when the Minh dynasty in China was overthrown. Many Chinese faithful to the Minh ran to Viet Nam for help, peace and business and were permitted by the Nguyen Lords. China town has many shops and family factories. The most interesting place is Binh Tay market built by one Chinese businessman, always crowded as a wholesale market. Walking into the Soai Kinh Lam material market is very interesting. Father Tam's Catholic Church for Chinese is historical as the first president of the south Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother hid themselves to avoid the coup-detat in 1963. China town never sleeps with all interesting activities. Most merchandize can be purchased at wholesale price in China town.

The Cu Chi Tunnels is one of the most famous historical vestiges of Vietnam's national liberation war. The network consists of over 200 kilometers of tunnels connected with one another like a cobweb. Inside are fighting posts, kitchens, food and ammunition storage caches, medic care chambers, meeting chambers, commanding chambers as well as living quarters which enabled guerillas to held on to the land and fight for years. From this underground village, the revolutionary forces staged the 1968 general offensive and the Ho Chi Minh campaign in April 1975 to liberate South Vietnam. 

Compared with the stately elegance of Hanoi's French colonial streets and cafes, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) remains brasher, more outgoing and more energetic. A city of sunlight and friendly dynamic people, Saigon-HCM City is a pleasant place for locals and foreigners alike to visit.

HCM City is only 300 years old but has many human and historical values created by the exchange of different cultures. The culture of the former Saigon and present-day HCM City shows an original characteristic of the Vietnamese culture and nation in the historical and geographical context of the country’s southern region. It is possible to say that Saigon-HCM City is a convergence of many cultural flows during its process of establishment and development, and it has a culture that bears the impressions of the Vietnamese, Chinese, Cham, Khmer, Indians, and so on.

Located in Dakao, first district, the temple was built by Cantonese Buddhists who settled in Saigon in the 19th century. The architectural style is heavily influenced by the Chinese of southern China.

The Taoist deity (Emperor of Jade) is enshrined here along with his 4 guardians (Tu Dai Kim Cuong). The major attractions to the shrine are the elaborate carvings of the various deities as well as its unique architectural style of the interior. This temple is also home to the Hall of Ten Hells where there are carvings of various scenes of the various levels of hell.

On 28th of  March in 1863, priest Lefebvre laid the first stone for the construction of the cathedral. After 12 years, this wooden church was damaged by worms and mites. It’s rebuilt on 7th – October in 1877, and French Clergyman Colombert put the first stone.

The church was completed in the Easter season on 11 of April in 1880, attended by southern Governor Le Myre de Vilers. The building costs 2,5 millions France (valued at that time) and being the largest and oldest cathedral in Viet Nam, modeling after the Notre Dame de Paris. All building materials: cement, steel, bricks, tiles, nails, even 6 bells were brought from France, bricks from Marseille, columned class by Lorin Company in Chartress (France). The church foundation was designed to stand the weight, ten times heavier than the present church.

Dinh Doc Lap or Independent Palace was completed in 1966 after three years of construction. The plans were drawn by Mr. Ngo Viet Thu, winner of the architectural excellence prize in Rome. The palace was built on the original site of the French governor's headquarters in the 19th century.

President Diem commissioned Mr. Thu to design the new palace and supervised its construction. Unfortunately, the president was assassinated shortly after construction started. The Palace became the home of then President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu until the fall of Saigon in 1975. It is now called the Reunification Hall with all the original furnishings still kept intact.

Considered as one of the most ancient Chinese temple, the place is consecrated to the Sea goddess bas on Chinese folk beliefs. The temple is a place for other gods such as Money God, Mother Goddess, and Mermaid Queer and ancient worshipping things are precious and worth seeing. A prayer for good health and business can be said after an incense coil is purchased. Good luck in doing business can be granted by the Money God after some money is offered to him.

Built in 1929 with the originally name as “Blanchard de la Brosse Museum”, Viet Nam Historical Museum has an excellent collection of about 30,000 artifacts on the evolution and development of the history and cultures of Vietnam, from the Bronze Age Dong Son civilization (13th century BC) to the last feudal dynasty ending in the mid-20^th century, with emphasis on the southern Funan, Vietnamese, Cham and Khmer civilizations and regional acculturation.

Formerly named "The House for Displaying War Crimes of American Imperialism and the Puppet Government", War Remnants Museum was established in September 1975. It is an organization in charge of studying, collecting, examining, preserving and displaying the remnants of the wars against the invaders in Vietnam.