What is the famous square in Ho Chi Minh City?

What is the best part of Ho Chi Minh City?

HCMC’s pulse? Depends on your thirst.

• District 1: Bến Thành/Đồng Khởi. Neon. Tourist bait. Late nights. Think manufactured chaos, but convenient. Like a polished stage.

• District 3. Real grit. History etched in the walls. Local. Authenticity screams, if you listen. I lived off Vo Van Tan. Trust me.

• Chợ Lớn (5, 10, 11). Food coma guaranteed. Markets pulse. Chinatown’s maze swallows you whole. Bargain hard.

• Thảo Điền (District 2). Expat bubble. Sterile. Pools gleam. Avoid unless you crave familiar blandness.

• Tân Bình District. Next to the airport. Probably. Honestly forgettable.

What is the iconic building in Ho Chi Minh City?

Bitexco Financial Tower, darling. Obviously. It’s like asking which cat rules the internet. Duh.

Think of Bitexco: Saigon’s shiny exclamation point. A 68-floor middle finger to gravity (in the nicest possible way, of course).

• It looms, a 262.5-meter monument to ambition. Soaring. Kinda.

  Okay, maybe “middle finger” was harsh. It’s more like a gracefully arched eyebrow. A raised glass, perhaps?

• When it first popped up… well, let’s just say it caused a stir. Like showing up to a potluck with caviar. Unexpected!

• I saw a dude trying to base jump from there once. Cops arrived before. Good times.

It really towers over my favorite pho place. Now that’s perspective!

How much does it cost to go to Landmark 81?

Alright, listen up, buttercup! Want to hit the tippy-top of Landmark 81? It’ll cost ya, but not a king’s ransom.

• Adults gotta fork over 810,000 VND, about $34.80 USD. Think of it as… three fancy coffees. Or maybe, like, seven bánh mì? Priorities, people!

• Kiddos get a break – only 403,000 VND, which is, uh, $17.40 USD. Basically, a steal! Almost cheap as dirt. Almost.

Now, that gets you up to the observation deck. Floors 79-81, a dizzying 369.65-382.65 meters. High enough to see your ex’s bad decisions from miles away. That observation deck is, like, the tallest in Vietnam right now. No joke.

Oh, and FYI, the Autograph Collection hotel opened there in 2022. So, if you’re feeling extra bougie, you can drop a small fortune on a room. I’m good, though. Grandma’s couch is comfier, ya know?

How many floors is Landmark 81?

Eighty-one floors. It’s a lot, isn’t it? A dizzying number. Like climbing a mountain of glass. I remember seeing it from across the river, so immense. It felt…cold.

That building. That Landmark 81. It’s in Binh Thanh, near where the old Newport logistics base was. Always felt strange to me, that juxtaposition. Old and new. History and ambition.

Key points:

• 81 floors. The number sticks with me. A stark, lonely figure.
• Binh Thanh location. I have a picture of it, somewhere in my old phone.
• Height. 461.2 meters, apparently. Just overwhelming to think about.
• Newport base site proximity. That’s the part that gets to me. Change. So much change.

I should go to sleep. It’s past 3 am. But my mind’s racing. It always does at night. Maybe the view from that high up isn’t so great after all.