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1. Ben Thanh Market
The covered market of central Saigon, in its clock-towered building since 1914, selling food, coffee, crafts and clothing, with a night market on the streets outside.
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2. Hanoi Old Quarter
The historic trading district north of Hoan Kiem Lake, known as the 36 streets, where each street was once named after the goods sold there.
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3. Tra Que Vegetable Village
A centuries-old vegetable and herb growing village about 2.5 km north of the old town, where visitors can try traditional farming and cook with the harvest.
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4. Hoi An Memories Show
A large outdoor show with more than 500 performers that tells 400 years of Hoi An's history without dialogue, staged most evenings at Hoi An Impression Theme Park.
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5. Nguyen Hue Walking Street
A broad pedestrian boulevard running from City Hall to the Saigon River, converted in 2015 and busiest in the evening when families and visitors stroll its length.
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6. Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre
Hanoi's best-known water puppet theatre, founded in 1969, staging several 50-minute shows a day of a northern Vietnamese folk art with traditional music.
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7. Dong Xuan Market
Hanoi's largest covered market, a three-storey hall on the northern edge of the Old Quarter, with a weekend night market on Dong Xuan Street outside.
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8. Saigon Skydeck
A 360-degree observation deck on the 49th floor of the lotus-shaped Bitexco Financial Tower, about 178 metres above the centre of Ho Chi Minh City.
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9. Thanh Ha Pottery Village
A 16th-century pottery village 3 km south-west of the old town, where craftsmen still shape clay by hand and visitors can try the wheel themselves.
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10. Bay Mau Coconut Forest (Cam Thanh)
A 57-hectare nipa palm wetland about 5 km east of the old town, known for coracle rides, fishing activities and its history as a wartime base.
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11. Binh Tay Market
Cholon's great trading market, opened in 1930 in an East Asian-style building with a central courtyard, and still a working hub for traders from across the south.
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12. West Lake
Hanoi's largest lake, with a 17-kilometre shoreline, the ancient Tran Quoc Pagoda on an islet and the leafy Tay Ho district of cafés, hotels and restaurants.
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13. A O Show
A Vietnamese bamboo circus by Lune Production at the Saigon Opera House, combining acrobatics, bamboo props and traditional music inspired by village life.
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14. Long Bien Bridge
A steel cantilever bridge over the Red River opened in 1903, rebuilt after wartime bombing and still crossed by trains, motorbikes, bicycles and pedestrians.
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15. Yaly Couture
One of Hoi An's largest tailoring houses, with more than 300 tailors, designers and craftsmen and branches on Tran Phu, Nguyen Thai Hoc and Tran Hung Dao.
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