Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City is the most dynamic city of the country with diverse colorful culture and the harmony of oriental and western features. In the city, historical values remain preserved in modern life. All create a special attraction of the young city. Each year, Ho Chi Minh City welcomes millions of visitors onvietnam travel.
As the bustling financial and commercial center of the city, District 1 has many amusement parks, medium and high-class shopping areas as well as palatial 5-star hotels of international standards like Park Hyatt, InterContinental, Sheraton and New World. All are located in prime locations in the city, District 1. Being well-designed and covering large areas, the
hotels become a symbol for the development of local tourism and make the city more prosperous. Being famous and recognized by famous tourist sites, those hotels are always the first choices of international travelers when setting foot in this land.
We’ve had good accommodation. Let’s take a tour around the city, let’s visit the tourist sites of the city wining the highest votes in the city.
Paintball Saigon.
Tourists are fond of outdoor activities. We’re in a place providing such activities, Paintball Saigon.
This place provides food, parties and other outdoor activities. Paintball Saigon attracts tourists not because of its luxury design, but a friendly environment.
Fito Museum
The Filo Museum was built from 2003 to 2007. The museum was established from the passion of the owner for the country’s traditional medicine. The museum gives visitors an overview of Vietnam’s traditional medicine from early days. 5 floors and 18 display rooms to visit display different topics to introduce visitors about traditional medicine.
The 1 st floor introduces a 15-minute movie summarizing the history of traditional medicine of Vietnam in the room designed like an institute of Royal Physicians. This is an ideal
destination for those who want to learn about traditional medicine of Vietnam.
The first things we can see at the 2nd floor are teapots which are used to make tea or to process herbs in hot water. People used to not distinguish tea and medicine. In “Notes of Going to the Capital”, Hai Thuong Lan Ong revealed that in Trinh’s palace, there is a separate building to take medicine. It’s called “tea room’. Bowls and cups are also used to take medicine. Besides the teapots, there’re lime pots of different designs. Lime pots tell the owners’ status. Tourists also can admire scales of different periods, gloss bottles, ancient drug cookers, eye-catching wine bottles and drug gourds.
We are standing at the 3rd floor of the museum.
There‘re hundreds of herbs here. Each jar exhibits specific medicine like herb, mineral, insects and animals. Besides, there are many medicine-making tools like knives and chisels here. Visitors can try traditional outfit of ancient physicians and take photo Boat-shaped grinding mill make dry drug into powder. This tool has been used since ancient times. It’s a simple and effective tool. It’s often made of wood, stone and especially iron.
Visitors then can admire the lifelike sector of Chinese medicine with check-up desk compartment closet, drug scales, mortars, abacus, prescription, etc. There are medicine jars with subtle patterns and colors. Alcohol drug has been a long lasting tradition. According to oriental medicine, drug alcohol has good effect on blood system. Its long been believe that puffing alcohol drug into ground is a good method. All will give visitors exciting experience.
Let’s take a tour from the fourth floor.
This is the area of precious medicine books written in Sino-Vietnamese of ancient physicians. Proudly, the museum is keeping neay 3.000 artifacts related to traditional medicine of Vietnam from the Stone Age to the present.
The 5th floor of the museum.
On the fifth floor is an old house frame in the 19th century given by a physician in Hanoi. The 5th floor of the museum is featured with tiles printed with “Longevity” to pray for healthy life and longevity. Wooden frames are carved with the images of ginseng and herbs. Visiting the 5th floor, visitors can admire elaborately carved paintings of 15 typical physicians in the history of traditional medicine based on their personality and lifetime.
Cham tower
Cham people are an ethnic group of Vietnam. Cham people have used massage as a medical method for long. Cham people worship Ling Ga and Yoni, implying yin and yang. These symbols imply birth and growth. Yin and Yang are very important in medicine field. Cham people believe Linh Ga represents mon and Yoni symbolizes woman. When yin and yang balance, people have good health. Yin and Yang balance gives a good health.
Binh Quoi Tourist
Located on Thanh Da peninsula, 8 kilometers from the city center to the north, Binh Quoi takes visitors back to the rural space of trees and flowers. Visitors will catch up with familiar rural areas like fresh lotus ponds, coconut trees silhouetted water along by riverbanks, etc. It is a unique peaceful space in the heart of noisy, boisterous Saigon.
Located in the heart of
Ho Chi Minh City and covering 3.5 hectares alongside two banks of Saigon River, Binh Quoi always has cool atmosphere. Unlike other amusement park, this rustic area especially attracts picnic maker. Green grass and friendly space make visitors feel like at home. Poetic landscape makes this area a miniature studio for wedding photo albums.
