Ho Chi Minh City Gardens and Open Air
Ho Chi Minh City · Vietnam
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Escape the urban bustle by exploring the city's most serene green spaces and botanical collections. You will wander through shaded groves, riverside promenades, and curated gardens. This walk offers a refreshing perspective on the city's commitment to open-air sanctuaries.
The walk
Tao Dan Park
The former garden of the French Governor's Palace, now a ten hectare urban sanctuary.
September 23rd Park
A former railway station turned urban lung and hub for local English learners.
Riverside Park
Riverside Park is a park and tourist attraction in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Saigon Zoo & Botanical Gardens
One of the world's oldest continuously operating zoos, founded by the French in 1864.
Le Van Tam Park
A children's park built over the city's most prestigious colonial cemetery.
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Ho Chi Minh City
4 walks
How a walk works
The guide starts talking when you arrive.
This page is the map and the itinerary. The app is the guide who walks it with you.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.