Thu Duc is one of the districts of Ho Chi Minh City, an interesting tourist destination in the South that gives visitors a feeling of openness, peace, even many places are still very pristine. So what does Thu Duc have to do, below is a detailed review of the hottest tourist attractions in the Thu Duc district today.
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1. Suoi Tien tourist area
Suoi Tien tourist area full name is Suoi Tien Cultural Tourist Area, located at the Northeastern gateway of Saigon, on the Hanoi Highway, Tan Phu Ward, District 9, Ho Chi Minh City. Suoi Tien was built with a very special combination of culture and ethnic origin. There are many stories described here such as the legend of Son Tinh – Thuy Tinh, Lac Long Quan – Au Co, the legend of banh chung – banh day, watermelon, etc., giving visitors interesting experiences.
The most prominent in this Suoi Tien cultural tourist area is the water park – the largest amusement park in Vietnam at that time, this water park also bears the very name of “fairy”. Tien Dong sea – and this is also the first artificial sea of our country.
Suoi Tien Cultural Tourist Area is open on all days of the week, but the time frame for normal days and weekends is different. Monday – Friday operating from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday operating from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Especially to serve the needs of residents and visitors, on public holidays and New Year’s the park will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. At 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, there is also a lively outdoor show of Son Tinh – Thuy Tinh.
2. Food and shopping area at University of Agriculture and Forestry
If you are a student of Nong Lam University but do not know about the night market here, you are not a genuine student. The Night Market of Nong Lam University (Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City) is located right next to the dormitory on campus, so it always attracts a lot of students to visit, eat and shop at any time. in Week.
Starting from 3pm to 10pm every day, this place has become an ideal rendezvous for students in general and students of Agriculture and Forestry in particular. Since the night market of Thu Duc University Village cleared the dining area, the night market here, especially the dining area, has automatically become a paradise for the souls to eat and drink freely. What does Thu Duc have to play? then this is the best recommended place for you.
3. Stone Lake in University Village
Referring to the national university village of Ho Chi Minh City, many people immediately think of Da Lake. Da Lake is famous near and far with beautiful scenery like Binh Hung , cool air. Possessing a vast lake with cliffs, bringing a beautiful beauty, Da Lake is an ideal place for students to gather and date.
Rock lake is an artificial lake. The birth of Da lake is the result of stone mining. After a while, the rainwater and the underground water in the rock flow out to form a lake. The area of Da lake includes four lakes more than 60 meters deep, the water in the lake is cold all year round. Surrounding the lake are jagged cliffs with steep paths frequented by many people.
The water in the lake is always in a standing state because there is no flow. Divers said that the structure of the lake bed is very complicated, the depth changes suddenly, just moving a few centimeters, the depth can change by a meter. In addition, the lake was formed from rocky mountains, so the two banks were only full of pebbles, a little carelessly fell into the lake bed.
4. Picnic at Thu Duc Stork Garden
About 20km from the city center, to answer the question of what Thu Duc has to do, please move to the Stork Garden along National Highway 1A to Thu Duc Crossroads and then continue to Tang Nhon Phu, turn right on Nguyen Van Street. Crossing Go Cong, cross the bridge and then go another 800m dirt road to arrive. In addition to Thu Duc Stork Garden, this ecological area is also known as Uncle Tu De’s Stork Garden, the “boss” of black and white storks of all kinds. As soon as they arrive, visitors will immediately feel the fresh and peaceful atmosphere that is indescribably different from the distance they have just passed.
Despite the development of urbanization, Thu Duc Stork Garden still attracts thousands of storks forming large flocks to live, becoming a unique ecological area, making a difference from the bustling city. Called Garden and Thu Duc, but this place is located in District 9, Ho Chi Minh City, in Go Cong Hamlet, Long Thanh My Ward. Since coming into operation, Stork Garden has attracted many tourists in the city for weekend picnics and tourists from all over the world who want to discover a different image of Saigon.
5. Thong Nhat Street Coffee Area
Thong Nhat Street, opposite the University of Technology and Education, Binh Tho Ward, Thu Duc District, is a street known for its beautiful cafes and delicious coffee. If you have traveled to Thu Duc, you should not miss this place. Maybe after a day of traveling at attractive tourist destinations in Thu Duc, let’s go to the shop with friends and loved ones to sip a cup of coffee and watch the life out there. That’s very wonderful.
On this road, there are cafes with spacious gardens, beautiful views or air-conditioned milk tea shops that are very suitable for avoiding the heat and gathering with friends…. The special thing is that the prices of drinks at these cafes are very affordable, not too “cheap” like many garden cafes in the downtown districts.
6. Seafood Restaurants
Let’s enjoy fresh seafood in Thu Duc in delicious seafood restaurants such as in Binh Tho ward, Thu Duc district such as Bien Dong restaurant on Einstein street or Huong Bien street 8 street, Linh Trung ward.
7. Vincom Thu Duc Shopping Center
With a total area of up to nearly 30,000m2, including 1 floor and 7 floating floors. The project is designed scientifically, modernly and luxuriously. Vincom Thu Duc will be a place for you to enjoy shopping with a variety of products of famous and reputable brands. For example: Adidas, MaxxSport, Bata, Emigo, An Phuoc, PNJ, Yves Rocher, Boss, Zip…
Diverse high-class brands: here you can choose products from fashion, perfumery, cosmetics, accessories… belonging to domestic and international brands.
The journey of sightseeing, shopping and having fun is definitely indispensable for a culinary experience. Understanding that, Vincom Thu Duc has arranged restaurant and coffee chains on most floors of the center. This is to help customers experience as well as create maximum convenience for customers.
8. Giga Mall Thu Duc
It is known that this center is located at 240-242 Pham Van Dong, Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City. Gigamall location connects the most densely populated area in Ho Chi Minh City with District 2, District 9, Binh Thanh, Phu Nhuan, Go Vap, Tan Binh, further is the gateway to Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces.
Gigamall is designed based on the image of a piano. Right from the main lobby of the building, visitors can admire the unique color changing LED array combined with a modern LED interactive floor. This array of lights with the name Di.Crystal and this interactive LED floor is a technological highlight that Gigamall is proud of, being present for the first time in Vietnam, bringing unique light and sound performances.
Gigamall Trade Center has a structure of 2 basements, 7 floating floors and 1 outdoor terrace with a total retail floor area of more than 110,000 m2, fully serving the needs of shopping, dining, entertainment and entertainment. location, and office for rent.
9. Nam Thien That Tru Pagoda – a one-pillar pagoda in the heart of the South sky
Considered as one of the most unique Buddhist architectural works of Saigon, Nam Thien Nhat Tru Pagoda (100, Dang Van Bi, Thu Duc District) is also known by the familiar name One Pillar Pagoda. and is also the place that is best reviewed by guests with the question what does Thu Duc have to do?
A unique version of Dien Huu Tu in Hanoi was erected in the southern country to draw a glimpse of history in King Ly Thai Tong’s dream, the temple was erected in the shape of a lotus. rising strongly in the middle of the lotus lake.
10. Van Duc Pagoda
Van Duc Pagoda is located about 15 km from the center of Ho Chi Minh City, and about 2 km from Thu Duc Market. This is a temple that originated from an old house of a well-to-do family who donated and repaired it as a temple.
Van Duc Pagoda originated from an old house donated by benefactor Nguyen Thi Huong. After receiving it, the Venerable Master rebuilt the temple citadel and named it “Van Duc Tu”. Since then, the pagoda was expanded in 1964, 1989, 1993 and from 2003 to 2005, the whole temple was restored to become as spacious as it is today.
The pagoda is located on a large area of land, harmoniously combining architectural art and natural landscape. The pagoda architecture includes the three-way gate, the main hall and the Lien Hoa station. Tam Quan built three floors, roof tiled with blue lapis lazuli, on the tips of the knife with stylized lotus-shaped patterns, the roof has the image of “two dragons adoring the Dharma wheel”.
Van Duc Pagoda was built with permanent materials with modern techniques. The whole temple is made of concrete, brick walls, and piled foundation. The temple floor and the altars are plastered with gray granite. It can be said that Van Duc Pagoda is one of the largest religious architectural works ever.
11. Hue Nghiem Pagoda
The ancient Hue Nghiem pagoda located on Dang Van Bi street (Thu Duc district) is the oldest temple in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh. The pagoda is evidence of the level of architecture and customs of the Vietnamese people in the newly discovered land, opening civilization on the wild land nearly 400 years ago.
Hue Nghiem ancient temple was established in 1721 by To Thiet Thuy – Tanh Tuong (1681-1757). The name of the pagoda is taken from the name of the Hoa Nghiem Sutra. Hue Nghiem Co Tu was originally just a small temple built on a low land, about 100m from the current terrain of the pagoda. After that, Buddhist Nguyen Thi Hien – legal name Lieu Dao donated land to rebuild the spacious and spacious temple in the current position.
As a temple with beautiful scenery, up to now, Hue Nghiem ancient temple has undergone many restorations, of which the biggest restoration was at the end of the 19th century organized by Zen Master Dat Ly – Hue Luu. Today, the pagoda’s facade has a modern architectural appearance, but the inner compartments still retain the traditional architecture. The roof of the façade has a 3-layer structure, gradually decreasing towards the top. The roof is made of red pipe tiles, with blue tile border. Particularly, the roof ridges running down to the end of the post are decorated with a symmetrical lotus petal pattern, in the middle is a wheel of Dharma, placed on a lotus flower. The space of Hue Nghiem ancient pagoda becomes more and more pure when the temple campus has many green trees, shading the 9 ancient towers with different designs like rising lotus petals.
12. Sunflower garden in Van Phuc Thu Duc urban area
With an area of over 18,000 m2, Sunflower Garden is located in Van Phuc Urban Area, Hiep Binh Phuoc Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, with about 600,000 trees planted in rows. Next to it is the beautiful Starry Flower Garden, which adorns the highlight of the Sunflower Garden, creating a landscape that is both natural and beautiful.
Each sunflower blooms best within 10 days. The most beautiful time of the day is from 7-9 am and before 17 pm. To attract visitors, gardeners experimented with sunflowers and some other flowers such as imitation star flowers and scallops. Over time, the garden owner realized that the sunflower garden was the most popular with visitors.
13. Thu Duc Church
Located at 51 Vo Van Ngan Street, Thu Duc District, Thu Duc Church is a church with a long history and beautiful architecture of Ho Chi Minh City. According to historical documents, at the end of the 19th century, Thu Duc area had many parishioners but there was no church in the area, every time people went to Mass, people had to go to Lai Thieu church. Around Thu Duc at that time, there were dense forests, many tigers and leopards, very difficult and dangerous to travel.
In the 1880s, Father Boutier was also an architect who was commissioned to design and build Thu Duc church. The church was inaugurated in 1889, with Gothic architectural style. Since then, Thu Duc church has been upgraded and restored many times, but the classical architecture is still preserved.
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15 things you don’t know about Thu Duc district
- One thing is certain, the Gypsy in District Tu, the cheongsam in District Five, the tycoon of District Nhat or the foreign Binh Chanh, in any district, there are children, grandchildren or friends studying at a university in Hanoi. Thu-Duc District. In Thu Duc District, there are nearly twenty universities with headquarters or campuses here. So now in Thu Duc, there are more students than righteous people in the district.
- Maybe there are people who have lived in Thu Duc all their lives, going back and forth on Dang Van Bi street, but they don’t know who Dang Van Bi is in the end. Some elderly people in the district said that in the past, there was Mr. Dang, who used to ride his bicycle through this road every day, one day he kicked so hard that the bicycle ball was thrown out. Since then, people have called this road Dang Van Bi, and later found it strange, so it was always reasonable to call Dang Van Bi. As for the truth of that story or not, no books have confirmed it.
- In the past, the Children’s House area and the adjacent swimming pool were all cemeteries, not only that, but also the large cemetery of the district. One day, the state planned land to build public works, but strangely, people only gave people a few days to unload graves and collect bones, then bulldozers pressed on the remaining graves. Now, every month of the seventh lunar month, there is a large worship ceremony here, and the whole area is filled with incense and smoke.
- There is no one in Thu Duc who has never thrown around Tam Ha during Christmas to see the cave. Many people do not know, the Tam Ha parish area is now the gathering place of the northern community who migrated from Ha Tay, Ha Bac and Ha Nam Ninh, the name Tam Ha comes from.
- In Thu Duc, there are two university villages. The National University Village and the second university village near Nguyen Huu Huan School are the nightmares of blind mothers. The road is like a checkerboard, running into one does not know how vertical or horizontal, which way to go now, add names like Justice, Peace, Solidarity, Freedom, so it’s like crying a river. .
- Early or late at night, before running into Pham Van Dong, remember to check your watch first, watch out for money leaving because you ran into the wrong lane when the time was up.
- Not as luxurious as Nhut, Ba, but Thu Duc people are rich underground, rich in danger, rich underground. Having a simple and gentle life, don’t lose your soul when you see him wearing shorts and a three-hole shirt in a gold shop to collect eight sets of enamel.
- The reason why before mentioning Saigon’s memories, there are often few images of Thu Duc. Because Thu Duc was not originally from Saigon! Previously, Thu Duc belonged to Gia Dinh Province, just a suburban area that Saigon people often came to every weekend.
- Now, too, Thu Duc is not crowded, there are no close, luxurious commercial centers. Going to Thu Duc is mainly about the riverbank, gardens, trees and beer bars. The people of Thu Duc also like restaurants and cafes with the sound of their homeland, the quality of their hometown is eaten in blood.
- Thu Duc spring rolls are famous, and now the best place to sell spring rolls in Thu Duc is located in … district 9. But that was the old days, now the district’s specialty is rice bao no 2k and the bus is as crowded as his wife’s wife. Justin Bieber.
- Any milk tea shop found on Ngo Duc Ke and Huynh Thuc Khang streets can be found in Vo Van Ngan.
- In Bac Ninh market, there is a tea shop opposite Nguyen Trung Truc Primary School that has been selling for a long time, fifty years. The shop is painted yellow, the walls are dark because of the smoke from the kitchen, and the front facing the market street is always crowded. The tea sold is just bean tea, banana tea, ginseng, but very delicious. Suitable for anyone who likes Vin.
- There are many places to eat in Thu Duc, but more strange than other districts, it is scattered everywhere, but not on a street or an area, from time to time, if you want to eat well, eat a lot. But that’s okay, if you love food, love Thu Duc, you can play no matter what.
- Hiep Binh Chanh and Hiep Binh Phuoc wards belong to Thu Duc, not Binh Chanh or Binh Phuoc. This place is a shipper’s nightmare.
- Although far from the center, but still called DISTRICT. And also the only district of Saigon that has … the welcome gate named after the district.
13 tourist destinations and 15 unknown things above can partly answer the question of what Thu Duc has to play? Although on the edge of Saigon, Thu Duc district is also one of the most visited places by young people. Wish you have the best experience when playing in Thu Duc. Follow midwestpcvs