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Are you at a loss for ideas on what you can buy to bring home while visiting Ho Chi Minh City? The tourist hotspot in Vietnam has some fantastic things that you can buy without wasting your time.
Ho Chi Minh City is quite famous for its handicrafts and has a vast array of popular gifts that are available across the city and that can be purchased. Some of the famous handicraft types that are on offer to buy as gifts include embroidery, vases, lacquer ware, trays, rosewood boxes, oil or watercolour paintings, wood-block prints, blinds made out of bamboo, carpets, reed mats, leatherwork and ceramics. Handicrafts are made by skilful hands of the Vietnamese artists and are genuine. Designs and patterns often display the lifestyle of Vietnamese people and therefore are quite attractive to foreign tourists. Visit a handicraft shop in Ho Chi Minh City that can be mostly found in the centre of the city.
Ho Chi Minh City is a superb place for souvenirs. The city is full of surprises with gift shops and street vendors having a vast array of souvenir items you will find hard to choose from. Some of these include magnets, chopsticks, statues, paintings, key tags, caps, traditional Vietnamese farmer hats, canes, sarongs and many more. Magnets come in different shapes and sizes like a shape of a fruit found in Ho Chi Minh City such as mangoes, jack fruit or coconuts. Magnets also come in the shape of traditional man and woman in Vietnam wearing an 'ao dai'. Traditional Vietnamese costumes are a favourite pick by most tourists among souvenirs. Statues come next as another top pick. Souvenirs bought in Vietnam are quite special because they all resemble something to do with Vietnamese people and their lifestyle.
The traditional dress of Vietnam is called 'ao dai' which can be seen while walking on the streets quite commonly worn by the Vietnamese people. It has a unique design that makes a woman's body look more radiant and pretty. These ao dais can be purchased at many tailor shops in Ho Chi Minh City. You can easily pick your choice of ao dai from the type of materials with different colours and patterns. If you want to get it stitched, you then ask the tailor to take your measurements after selecting your material and you will get your own ao dai that you can wear proudly when you get back home or gift them to your loved ones, tailor-made for them.
These are one of the exceptionally special gifts that can be bought in Vietnam. They are quite awe-inspiring the way the artists use sands to pour in a cup and end up creating beautiful images and pictures with careful focus and attention given to the finest details. The end result is a beautifully hand-painted sand picture. These artists are highly admired by visiting foreigners due to their unique skills expressed through these sand paintings. It cannot be said how amazed and happy the receiver of your gifts would be back home.
Another favourite rare thing you can buy to take home while in Ho Chi Minh City is dried food. There are many kinds of dried food varying from salty and spicy ones to those that are sweet. Most popular forms of dried food in the mystic city are dried squid, dried beef, dried jack fruit, dried coconut and dried banana. These come in different brand names and can be easily found in supermarkets in town close to Ho Chi Minh apartments in the vicinity the likes of Vista Residences, sold often in bulk and sometimes pre-packed.
