The War Remnants Museum is recognizable by the heavy military hardware staged in its walled outdoor yard, including a Bell UH-one Huey helicopter and an M-forty-eight Patton tank. Housed in the former United States Information Agency…
Wartime Saigon Landmarks
We'll walk through the heart of old Saigon to the hotels, government offices, and safehouses that defined the war era. Along the way, we'll see where international journalists filed their stories and where the conflict finally came to its dramatic end.
Listen to this tour in the Mira app →Walk it in street view
1. War Remnants Museum
2. Independence Palace
Independence Palace is a broad, angular modernist structure located at one hundred thirty-five Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street. It stands on the former site of the French colonial Norodom Palace, which was demolished after a nineteen sixty-two…
3. Museum of Ho Chi Minh City
The Museum of Ho Chi Minh City is recognizable by its pale yellow neoclassical facade and the large, symmetrical staircase leading to its main entrance. Constructed between eighteen eighty-five and eighteen ninety, the building was…
4. Rex Hotel
The Rex Hotel stands at the prominent intersection of Le Loi and Nguyen Hue Boulevards. This six-story structure originated in the early twentieth century as a French automobile garage and showroom, known as the Bainier Auto Hall. By…
5. Hotel Continental Saigon
The Hotel Continental Saigon is marked by its white, French colonial facade and arched windows that sit prominently at the intersection of Dong Khoi Street and Lam Son Square. Inaugurated in eighteen eighty, the building was created by…
6. Caravelle Hotel
The Caravelle Hotel stands at nineteen through twenty-three Lam Son Square, its original ten-story structure now adjoined by a twenty-four-story tower. Opened on Christmas Eve in nineteen fifty-nine, the hotel was designed by the…
7. Pittman apartments
The Pittman Apartments, located at twenty-two Ly Tu Trong Street, is an unassuming mid-century building known for the iconic image of a helicopter perched atop its elevator shaft. Designed by architect Nguyen Van Hoa during the nineteen…