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Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam · 11 quests

History

2 quests
Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Independence Palace
A tank crashed through these gates in 1975
War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
War Remnants Museum
Its exhibits cover two different wars

Nature

2 quests
Tao Dan, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Tao Dan
Ten hectares sit behind a palace
Saigon Zoo, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon Zoo
Rare orchids grow beside more than a hundred animal species

Art

1 quest
Buu Long Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Buu Long Pagoda
Its gold tower looks nothing like a usual pagoda

Food

3 quests
Bánh xèo, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Bánh xèo
Its name comes from the pan's loud sizzle
Scorched Rice, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Scorched Rice
Crisp rice meets a dark dipping sauce
Phở Bò, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Phở Bò
The bowl is built around beef

Sport

1 quest
Thống Nhất Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Thống Nhất Stadium
Its old name meant Republic Stadium

Party

2 quests
Dollhouse, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Dollhouse
The whole bar plays at being a dollhouse
The View, Ho Chi Minh City🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
The View
The backpacker quarter plays out below

Vietnam

Photo quests in Ho Chi Minh City

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Ho Chi Minh City holds eleven quests across six categories, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in History behind it. The one category with nothing in Ho Chi Minh City so far is Beach.

Three of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eight are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers three of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Ho Chi Minh City quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The three quests in Ho Chi Minh City the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Ho Chi Minh City

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Ho Chi Minh City

How many photo quests are there in Ho Chi Minh City?
11, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Independence Palace, Tao Dan and Buu Long Pagoda.
What is there to do in Ho Chi Minh City beyond the obvious?
3 of the 11 quests in Ho Chi Minh City are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Ho Chi Minh City holds three at tier 1, five at tier 2 and three at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Dollhouse, Scorched Rice and Phở Bò, which fall under Food and Party.
Can you do all the Ho Chi Minh City quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 11 is 20 km from the middle of the Ho Chi Minh City list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Ho Chi Minh City quests can you do for free?
8 of the 11 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 11 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Ho Chi Minh City means three quests: Dollhouse, Scorched Rice and Phở Bò.
How do I prove I visited a place in Ho Chi Minh City?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Ho Chi Minh City is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Independence Palace fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Ho Chi Minh City sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.