Saigon | "I know you, I'll always remember you!" ❤️

📍 Saigon “Je vous connais, depuis toujours” "I know you, I'll always remember you!" Day 2 in Saigon 👉 Itinerary: Pink Church - Reunification Palace - Central Post Office - Coffee Apartment - City Hall - Opera House 【Pink Church】 The Pink Church, also known as the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was built in the early 20th century during the French colonial period. It is a Roman Catholic cathedral and the second largest in Ho Chi Minh City. The church has a romantic pink exterior, and its cross ventilation holes and carved round windows are also very exquisite! 【Reunification Palace】 Also known as the Presidential Palace, it became known as the Reunification Palace after the unification of North and South Vietnam. The palace contains banquet halls, reception rooms, living rooms, and also has a basement and a rooftop platform for helicopter takeoff and landing! 【Century-Old Post Office】 + 【BOOK Street】 + 【Notre-Dame Cathedral】, these three buildings are all concentrated together! ① Century-Old Post Office: Built at the end of the 19th century and designed by a French architect, it features red eaves, yellow exterior walls paired with green window frames, belonging to the Gothic architectural style. Inside the hall, there is a portrait of Ho Chi Minh in the center, and the classical atmosphere of the circular dome is strong! You can mail postcards or buy them individually (there are very cute hand-drawn original pulp paper postcards), and pens are provided on site for writing. Staff will remind you to stick on stamps, and after paying for the stamps, you can send them out! You can purchase Saigon Lady perfume; ② BOOK Street: Located to the left of the post office, the entire street is lined with bookstores, mostly Vietnamese books, but also some in English and French. At the entrance of the book street, the first store on the right has a variety of souvenirs, where you can buy popular magnetic fridge magnets, all featuring Vietnamese characteristics such as hand carts and drip coffee! ③ Notre-Dame Cathedral: Also known as the Red Church, it was built in 1877 and is the most famous landmark in Ho Chi Minh City. It has two 40-meter-high bell towers designed after the bell towers of Notre-Dame de Paris. In the garden square in front of the church, there stands a statue of the Virgin Mary, a gift from the Roman Church in 1945. The church is currently under renovation and not open to the public. 【Coffee Apartment】 It is a coffee apartment renovated from an old house, gathering more than fifty cafes with various styles; 【City Hall】 City Hall is a building with a strong French style. It has two floors, and the pale yellow walls are carved with many Western mythological figures; 👉 You can capture the moment when pigeons fly by! 【Opera House】 Built in 1897, the Opera House is a typical Baroque-style building and is one of the historical and cultural heritages of Ho Chi Minh City. We happened to run into a newlywed couple on their wedding day! ❤️ 🥂 I got to know Saigon from a French movie "The Lover". In my day and a half in Saigon, I saw the shadow of the past French presence, French architecture, and the lifestyle habits that the colonists brought from Paris. They share the same origin, but they also adapt to local conditions. They are similar, yet each has its own uniqueness! Slow down and feel the temperature of this city, just as presented in the movie: "beautiful, romantic, broken, regretful", perhaps this is the normal state of life! 👣 #Vietnam #Saigon #SaigonCoffee #VietnamTravel #PinkChurch #CapturingThisMoment #TravelTheWorld