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Vũng Tàu

Vũng Tàu is a ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Vũng Tàu
Vũng Tàu · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Vũng Tàu is a ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is one of the 168 new wards, communes and special zones of the city following the reorganization in 2025.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vũng Tàu

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Christ of Vung Tau

    Christ the King of Vũng Tàu is a statue of Jesus, standing on Mount Nhỏ in Vũng Tàu, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The Vietnamese Catholic Church built the statue in 1974 and it was completed on 2 December 1994.

    3.1 km · sculpture · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Vũng Tàu

Airports
Tan Son Nhat (SGN), 69 km · Can Tho (VCA), 152 km · Techo (KTI), 260 km
Stations
Vung Tau Airport, 3.3 km · Vung Tau Port, 4.2 km
  • Ho Chi Minh City → Vũng Tàu
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · ₫95,450–127,000
  • Can Tho → Vũng Tàu
    146 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · ₫232,000–310,000
  • Nha Trang/nha Trang aiurportCam Ranh → Vũng Tàu
    279 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · ₫364,000–486,000
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vũng Tàu

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vũng Tàu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAs motorbikes and bicycles are forbidden from HCMC–Long Thành–Dầu Giây Highway, the best way for drivers/riders is using Cát Lái ferry.
  • Get in{{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata=Q2446044 | lastedit=2023-12-14 | content=It serves only helicopter flights.
  • Get in}} "Tàu cánh ngầm" aka "Hydrofoil fast ferry" in Vietnam is a quick way to get to and from Vũng Tàu.
  • Get inThe ferry departs at Bach Dang Pier in Saigon, District 1.
  • Get aroundIf you prefer off-road, some paths up to Small/Big Mountains are good way of practising.

From Wikivoyage: Vung Tau, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    KampotKH

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    319 km
  2. 02
    Koh Rong and Koh Rong SanloemKH

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    421 km
  3. 03
    Siem ReapKH

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    484 km
  4. 04
    Ko ChangTH

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    546 km
  5. 05
    Pakse and Si Phan DonLA

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    548 km

If you know how people move in Vũng Tàu – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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