Crescent

Ho Chi Minh City


A glitzy promenade of eating and shopping along a scooped-out section of canal in Saigon's upmarket District 7.


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1. Saigon South

0.74 MILES

Saigon’s District 7 is a sleek, fashionable and well-designed retreat for the wealthy within the fringes of the city. Businesspeople, both expats and the…

2. San Art

2.87 MILES

This inspiring, independent, nonprofit gallery was founded by artists, giving other local artists the opportunity to display and develop their intriguing…

3. Ho Chi Minh Museum

2.98 MILES

Nicknamed the ‘Dragon House’ (Nha Rong), this former customs house was built by the French authorities in 1863. The museum houses many of Ho Chi Minh’s…

4. Bitexco Financial Tower

3.24 MILES

This elegant 68-storey, 262m-high Carlos Zapata–designed skyscraper dwarfs all around it. It's reportedly shaped like a lotus bulb, but it also resembles…

5. Fine Arts Museum

3.28 MILES

With its airy corridors and verandas, this elegant 1929 colonial-era, yellow-and-white building is stuffed with period details; it is exuberantly tiled…

6. Saigon Cao Dai Temple

3.34 MILES

The largest Cao Dai temple in HCMC, this fabulously colourful three-storey structure celebrates Vietnam’s home-grown religion of Cao Daism. Use separate…

7. Cho Quan Church

3.35 MILES

Originally built by the French and destroyed three times, this 19th-century house of worship is one of the city's largest churches, with good views from…

8. Me Linh Square

3.45 MILES

This compact tree-studded square facing the Saigon River features a statue of the 13th-century Vietnamese general, Tran Hung Dao.

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