Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is situated on Hung Vuong st, right in front of Ba Dinh square, the historic place where Respected Uncle Ho read the Vietnam Manifesto on September 2nd, 1945. Try viewing the mausoleum from Ba Dinh square, for a great view of the vast area covered with green grass in front of the mausoleum. There are always two guardmen dressed in white uniforms standing in front of the Mausoleum's main entrance  door, and every day, a match of white-dressed-guardmen parades around the Mausoleum.

Usually you will have to wait a while in a several-meter-long queue waiting for entering the mausoleum in the south of the Mausoleum. The Mausoleum is open everyday except Monday and Friday ( and in October and Novemeber when Uncle Ho's corpse is moved for further preservation) for pilgrims to pay their homage to Unlce Ho. Bear in mind that the dress code is is strict, and you are required to wear shirts and long trousers if you want to enter the mausoleum. In addition, no cameras, hats, or bags are allowed to be brought inside.

You must walk in complete silence and hardly have a minute to linger in front of the glass of Uncle Ho's glass coffin and there is nothing else except this coffin in the Mausoleum. He is still dressed in his traditional khaki clothes and rubber sandals, and he looks as if he were taking a short nap.