Ho Chi Minh City Botanical Garden

Ho Chi Minh City Botanical Garden

Location: The botanical garden is located in the northeast of District 1, between the History Museum and the Saigon River.

Transportation: A taxi from Pham Ngu Lao Street to the botanical garden costs around 15,000 VND, just slightly over the starting fare.

Admission: 8,000 VND.

The garden cultivates the vast majority of tropical plants that grow in Vietnam, making it a vibrant and colorful paradise adorned with rockeries, pavilions, and potted plants, offering a delightful experience.

The zoo houses hundreds of rare animals, such as elephants, tigers, lions, deer, rhinoceroses, crocodiles, and lynxes; the reptile house features many oddly shaped snakes and lizards; domesticated animals such as pigs, rabbits, and sheep also have their own spaces, which is quite interesting.

The botanical garden is one of the most renowned zoological and botanical gardens in Southeast Asia, with a history of over 100 years.

Covering an area of 32 hectares, the garden is divided into two main sections—animals and plants, which is the origin of its name. It is often visited by groups of local elementary and middle school students, and even kindergarten kids.

Vietnam Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969), the founding father of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the first Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam, was a great proletarian revolutionary. Born on May 19, 1890, in Nghe An Province, Vietnam, he worked as a teacher, sailor, and laborer in his early years. In 1920, he joined the Communist Party in France, went to the Soviet Union for studies in 1923, participated in the Fifth Comintern Congress in 1924, and carried out revolutionary activities in China from the end of that year until 1927. In February 1930, he led the establishment of the Indochinese Communist Party. In 1941, he initiated the creation of... More details about Ho Chi Minh ++