Visitors to HCM City are advised to visit the mangrove forests in the coastal district of Can Gio. Mangrove forests in HCM City’s Can Gio District. Leaving the city’s busy streets, drivers take travellers off to the coast to visit the lush biosphere reserve, where they take a boat through the criss-crossing waterways of the mangrove forest, stop for lunch, and admire the idyllic countryside. Travellers can also climb on a scooter with an experienced guide to leave the city, watching as the scenery changes from bursting urban street to rural countryside with enormous rice fields, terrace houses hidden under the shade of fruit orchards, and dirt trails. They can take a ferry across the biggest river in Sai Gon and perhaps visit a local incense workshop before stopping for lunch at a restaurant by the riverside and savour freshly caught seafood. They can head to Rung Sac Guerilla Base and enjoy a boat ride through the waterways of the amazing...

A homestay of eight bamboo watch-towers in the middle of a lotus lake in Binh Chanh District, HCM City is seen as an ideal place for visitors to be nestled in the midst of nature. It takes around 30 minutes to drive from the City centre to the homestay complex. Each watch-tower is decorated with different pots of flowers. Simple and convenient furniture Visitors can row kaya boats around the homestay area. BBQ dinner with different kinds of dishes Each small watch-tower is priced at VND1.46 million for two people while the big one is VND1.68 million, including three meals and other services like rowing kaya boats, and learning to cook.   VOV Nguyen Hung Minh  

The Sai Gon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company has launched a luxury train from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang.   A new luxury train begins running between HCM City and Nha Trang, the second on the route. The train’s coaches have semi-automatic doors, 56 seats that convert, power sockets, and eco-safe toilets. They are fire- and sound-proof and have wider aisles to give passengers more space to walk. The train will leave HCM City at 8.30pm and arrive in Nha Trang at 5:27 the next morning, and leave Nha Trang at 8.06pm. This is the second five-star train on the route. Six more such trains would be introduced on high-demand routes around the country by 2021, said Vu Anh Minh, chairman of Vietnam Railways. VNA