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Location: Long Thanh My Ward, District 9, Ho Chi Minh City, just 20km from downtown.
Characteristic: The 300ha club has two 18-hole golf courses and the Lakeview Villas complex. Vietnam Golf and Country Club is one of the favourite destinations of Vietnamese and foreign golfers.
Occupying 150 ha, the West and East courses, opened in late 1994 and 1997 respectively, impress players with their designs. The West Course follows the Asian tradition of narrow, tree-lined fairways and fast, smooth greens with 12 artificial lakes in a poetic landscape. The East Course features Western-style architecture and offers long, wide fairways with well placed bunkers and water hazards plus challenging, undulating greens.
Many tournaments have been fought out on these lawns. Right after the West Course’s opening, the Asia Professional Golf Tournament took place there in 1995 and 1996.
With the competitions, the club has also received top golfers of many Southeast Asian countries. Overall, the club has welcomed 700,000 players so far. Of them, 500,000 are members.
Both East and West courses have become popular among foreign tourists who come to Vietnam through arranged golf tours. Most of the players have given their thumbs-up to the club’s services and quality. Besides the two courses, the club has 59 luxurious, spacious and well-furnished villas of Western design.
The fresh air, tranquility, safety and world-class facilities surrounded by green grass are certain to enthrall guests. Close to the golf courses, most villas look out to the 12 ha natural Dai Vien Lake. Many senior officers of companies in industrial parks and export processing zones in Ho Chi Minh City and the neighbouring provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Duong have moved into the Lakeview Villas. The villas are also home to specialists and their families from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong...
All tenants are allowed to use the open-air Sports Club and get discounts when playing golf. In addition, the Vietnam Golf and Country Club has a restaurant, a driving range, a tennis court, a badminton court, boats and a playground area for children.
Location: Saigon Water Park is located on Go Dua Bridge, Kha Van Street, Linh Dong Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City.
Characteristics: Saigon Water Park was opened on December 13th, 1997, providing water entertainment, the first - ever park built in Vietnam to international standards.
With new games, some with high speeds that give visitors great thrills, the Park leaders take visitors’ safety as their prime objective. Among the 300 staff are 70 lifeguards who guide and protect visitors on the entertainment rides. These lifeguards are trained in international emergency and granted certificates by the World Water Park Association. At the park gate, there is a medical station with professional medical workers on duty during the opening hours. For the complete safety of the visitors, smoking is only allowed in designed areas.
Visitors need not know how to swim, but have to wear swimsuits. The "Water slides, Raft rides", from a height of 15m, consists of six slides, and visitors slide over 120m of zigzag circles before flying to a blue water lake. Two persons can slide together on special slides. Multi-slides and twisters are also provided which consist of two-slide twittering into each other from a height of 12m and are 70m long.
Visitors may swim or use rubber rings to play in the Wave Pool. Every ten minutes, there is an artificial wave, one meter high. Those who want to relax can use buoys to float on the Lazy River, 350m long, and enjoy the fresh natural air and see the entire park, shaded with many trees. There is a special swimming pool reserved for children.
Besides the road, visitors can take a tourist ship from Bach Dang wharf in the city center and travel along the Saigon Rive, in order to reach the Park (this requires reservations). Tickets to the Park are VND 60,000 per person and allow the own- to join in any ride for as long as they like. Children below 1.1 in high are charged VND 50,000. Visitors to the Park are not allowed to bring food nor drinks to keep the Park clean. Instead, they are served with European and Asian dishes at restaurants. Souvenir articles, swimming suits and towels, hats, anti - sun cream, etc are sold in the Park.
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