Saigon South

Ho Chi Minh City


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 local nouveau riche, have embraced this planned neighbourhood of wide streets, fancy shops and manicured parks.

A centrepiece is the Crescent, a glitzy promenade of eating and upscale shopping along a scooped-out section of canal. After dark, the 700m-long pedestrian-only Starlight Bridge is a colourful attraction. The expansive SC Vivo City shopping centre is also located here.

It’s well worth visiting Saigon South for a stroll and a look around. If you’re a fitness freak, it’s one of the less petrol-fumed places for a jog. Plenty of big-name city restaurants and chains have colonised the area. The Crescent is 7km south of Pham Ngu Lao; it should only take 15 minutes by cab (around 150,000d), outside of peak times.


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1. Crescent

0.74 MILES

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

2. San Art

3.49 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

3.51 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

3.79 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

3.88 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. Me Linh Square

3.97 MILES

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

7. Ton Duc Thang Museum

4.06 MILES

This small patriotic museum is dedicated to Ton Duc Thang, Ho Chi Minh’s successor as president of Vietnam. Born in 1888 in Long Xuyen in the Mekong Delta…

8. Cho Quan Church

4.07 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…

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