Lush

Ho Chi Minh City


Once you’re done chatting in the garden bars, move to the central bar for serious people-watching and arse-shaking. The decor is very manga, with cool graphics plastering the walls. DJs spin most nights, with Bass on Saturdays pulling in the crowds.


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Nearby Ho Chi Minh City attractions

1. Military Museum

0.31 MILES

A short distance from the History Museum, this small collection is devoted to Ho Chi Minh’s campaign to liberate the south. Interior exhibits are of minor…

2. History Museum

0.35 MILES

Built in 1929, this notable Sino-French museum houses a rewarding collection of artefacts illustrating the evolution of the cultures of Vietnam, from the…

3. Ton Duc Thang Museum

0.42 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…

4. Botanic Gardens

0.42 MILES

One of the first projects undertaken by the French after establishing Cochin-China as a colony was founding these fantastic, lush gardens. Once one of the…

5. Central Post Office

0.43 MILES

The city's landmark French-era post office is a period classic, designed by Marie-Alfred Foulhoux (though often credited to Gustave Eiffel) and built…

6. 22 Ly Tu Trong

0.43 MILES

The ground floor of this innocuous-looking building on Ly Tu Trong is currently occupied by the Vietnam National Chemical Group. Step across the road to…

7. Opera House

0.45 MILES

Gracing the intersection of Ð Dong Khoi and ÐL Le Loi, this grand colonial edifice with a sweeping staircase was built in 1897 and is one of the city's…

8. Saigon Central Mosque

0.46 MILES

Built by South Indian Muslims in 1935 on the site of an earlier mosque, lime-green Saigon Central Mosque is an immaculately clean and well-tended island…