Discover SaigonFormerly a backwater peninsula, today’s Thao Dien is the definition of Saigon’s fast-rising affluence. Lying northeast of the city centre, Thao Dien has grown to become a gentrified quasi-oasis for cultural diversity, short-term retreat, and, not without, the city’s signature paradoxes.
Define the city of Saigon however you wish, and it will evade your perception gloriously: an exclusive multiculturality; small shelters filled with expanding hopes and dreams; immense sunbathed flatness, punctuated by breathtaking skyscrapers along beautiful meanders; motional and visual paradoxes skirting near-perfect harmony anytime, just like its world-famous traffic.
The city has never been this gorgeous. Come to this picture, Amanaki Thao Dien: upon this land, we establish a concrete (literally and metaphorically) hill of hope, embracing a trove of quieter, calmer stories of Saigon for its visitors.
Starting to explore Saigon from Thao Dien can be a pleasant surprise: you start quietly, admit chaos, and return quietly.
Amidst such chaos, people on vehicles are fluctuating like musical notes within and out of the boundless, winding staves - the dazzling streets and smaller alleys - in what appears little less than a non-stop, meticulously orchestrated soundscape soaked in colours. To quote Rebecca Solnit, the city then “always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.”
We make sure that you can make the most of your stay in Saigon, with memories to keep and stories to tell others.
For us, underneath its modern skin, the city of Saigon embodies a nostalgic and romantic soul, with its countless stories of culture, nature and self-discovery waiting to be told just beyond Amanaki's doorstep.
Here are some of our favourite itineraries for your reference if you are curious on how we like to spend a day in style.
At Amanaki, we resolve to treasure curiosity above all. Like being drawn towards hope, we are equally and passionately drawn to the miracles of the not-yet and might-be. Explore together, shall we?
The selection of tours and workshops below is always ready for booking through our service team, 24 hours in advance.
