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VietnamDescription and is it worth a visit
There is a separate paid attraction on Ba Dinh Square – the museum or the Presidential Palace complex. Part of the palace, called Ho Chi Minh's Vestige In The Presidential Palace Area, is open to tourists. It is notable for the fact that President Ho Chi Minh City lived and worked here from 1954 until his death in 1969.
They say that everything here has been preserved absolutely in the same form as it was under Uncle Ho. The complex consists of a beautiful well-maintained territory and an orchard and a pond, there is a garage with two cars of the president, a separate house on stilts with Uncle Ho's office, a work house, and, of course, a gift shop. You can't enter most of the buildings, but they are arranged so that you can view them through glass doors. So, here you can see the Soviet refrigerator "Moscow" in the kitchen, and the Soviet car "Victory" flaunts in the garage.
Our opinion is that, although the museum is significant and interesting for Vietnamese, we will not recommend foreign tourists to visit it without fail and first of all we will not. But if you have enough time while visiting the entire Ba Dinh Square complex, then be sure to take a look. Recall that on Ba Dinh Square you can visit the Ho Chi Minh City Museum, see the mausoleum and the pagoda on one pillar, and, accordingly, this palace.
Important! The entrance to Ba Dinh Square and to all attractions on it is now limited by security measures and a dress code. To get here, you need to go through one of the checkpoints from the south or north side, where they will check all your things. Lighters, weapons and items similar to weapons, even pocket knives, are not allowed to pass. They may also not miss it if you are wearing a T-shirt, short shorts or a skirt.
There are no storage rooms for prohibited items. There are no free capes, but at the entrance there are "traders" who offer to buy a cape for 200,000 VND (30,000 after the auction).
🌐 Website: https://vpctn.gov.vn/
🕐 Working hours
Daily, from 08:00 to 11:00 and from 13:30 to 16:00. On Monday it is open only in the morning from 08:00 to 11:00.
💵Entrance fee / ticket price
40,000 VND (1.52 USD). When buying tickets, a free booklet card with information is issued. You can also rent an audio guide in 7 languages for 50,000 VND, but there is no Russian language.
🚶 How to get there
The Presidential Palace is located on Ba Dinh Square, the entrance to the palace is located to the right of the mausoleum (entrance to the palace on the map).
The entrance to the Ba Dinh square itself is now carried out through a checkpoint with a check of all things and a dress code (T-shirts, short skirts and shorts, revealing clothes, lighters, knives, weapons and items similar to weapons are prohibited). Checkpoints are located on the south and north sides of the square (northern entrance to the square on the map, southern entrance to the square on the map).
In turn, Ba Dinh Square can be reached from the tourist area and from the lake of the returned sword:
- Walking distance (2.5 kilometers)
- Taxi from 45 000 VND (1.71 USD) when ordering via Grab, Maxim, Xanh Sm, InDrive applications
- On city buses from 10,000 VND (0.38 USD), there are a lot of routes.
Other areas of Hanoi are also easily accessible by taxi or city buses.
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