The best way to get around Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon is on foot. This dynamic industrial center of Vietnam offers a wide variety of transportation facilities to choose from.
 
Airlines
 
Vietnam Airlines is the national airline and operates in more than 20 domestic and 39 international air routes. At present Vietnam Airlines is using a modern fleet of Western-built aircraft. Pacific Airlines is the second airline of Vietnam. It operates through a leased fleet of Boeing 737s and 767s. Tan Son Nhat International Airport, located 7 km away from the District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City, is the largest international airport of Vietnam. Transfer facilities (bus & taxi) at affordable rates are offered by the airport authority to transfer the passengers to and from the airport.
 
Railway
 
The Vietnamese railway company, Duong Sat Vietnam, offers the rail service in the city. The Southern rail route from Hanoi to Saigon Ho Chi Minh City operates the famous Reunification Express train. The entire trip takes around 2 days.
 
Roads
 
The National Highway 1, extending from the Huu Nghi Border Gate in Lang Son Province to Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City and terminating at Go Dau Ha is the well-known trans-Vietnam North-South high way.
 
Truong Son Trail, starting from Tan Ky in Ha Tinh province and ending at southern Vietnam, goes in parallel with the National Highway 1.
 
However the network of roads within the city is not adequately developed. Roads are packed with bicycles and motorbikes. Cyclo plying on the streets is an interesting feature of Saigon's road transport.
 
Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City is well connected with other parts of Vietnam through the National Highways.
 
Waterway
 
Ferry service operating through the waterways of the city is of great use to the locals.