Vietnam's Money in Using (Part 1)

So, today, I've got my mood back. As yesterday, I was talking to an old friend, that's really help. This topic is for tourists in Vietnam. As I have seen many travelers had bought products with very high prices or they'd given the wrong denomination of money. For example: in order to pay 5000 VNĐ, you'd pay 50.000 VNĐ, in that case, the sellers must repay 45.000 VNĐ, but they just give you 40.000 VNĐ. Then, if you know Vietnam's money denominations, I think your travel in our country would be more perfect. And I want to insist that not all of Vietnamese sellers are that bad, just a few of them, so as in other countries in Asia like Chinese, you'd usually trick by those bad sellers when you don't understand their languages well, this can be understanding.

Let's start with the lowest denomination : 500 VNĐ

You can buy a small candy. Or when you see the price like 4.500 VNĐ, then you can use this denomination together with others money denomination because it has 500 behind.

500 VNĐ + 500 VNĐ = 1.000 VNĐ











The next denomination is 1.000 VNĐ:  

A Cool Air chewing gum can be bought with 1.000 VNĐ. If you see the price like 11.000 VNĐ then you can give 10.000 + 1.000 VNĐ together. The same with 101.000 VNĐ, you'd give 100.000 + 1.000 VNĐ.

1.000 VNĐ + 1.000 VNĐ = 2.000 VNĐ








2.000 VNĐ will be like this :   

This kind of money can be used to buy 2 Cool Air gums. In the countryside, you can go to the market place and tell the greengrocer:" Give me 2.000 VNĐ of onion.". Isn't that fun? But in the big cities like Ho Chi Minh or Ha Noi, you should buy chewing gum then.

2.000 VNĐ + 2.000 VNĐ = 4.000 VNĐ

But we don't have money denomination 4.000 VNĐ. So, whenever you see price like 14.000 VNĐ, you can give 10.000 VNĐ + two sheets of  2.000 VNĐ instead. Or give them 5.000 VNĐ, and they will return you 1.000 VNĐ, a little tip for you.

Let's have a look at 5.000 VNĐ

To pay for parking a motorcycle in public place such as hospitals or supermarkets. 5.000 VNĐ equals 5 Cool Air gums, a bunch of vegetable or a pencil, a pen,...ect.

10 sheets of 500 VNĐ    = 5.000 VNĐ
5   sheets of 1.000 VNĐ = 5.000 VNĐ
2 sheets of 2.000 + 1 sheet of 1.000  = 5.000VNĐ

Done for today, thanks God, I hate Maths, really!






Hope you find this post helpful. Like if you agree. Then I'll continue with the rest.

Once again, this topic only have one purpose that help tourists while traveling in Vietnam to get to know how to use Vietnam's money denominations. Don't get me involve with others' bad intentions. Or else I'd delete my topic as soon as I find out. Thank you all for reading.

JennLe.