Following Yersin — Pasteur Institute, Colonial Heritage & a Mountain Tomb — Nha Trang

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Following Yersin — Pasteur Institute, Colonial Heritage & a Mountain Tomb

Half-day

4 stops · Half-day

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Last checked 6/2026

My Trip

A science-history buff's course tracing Alexandre Yersin — the plague-bacterium discoverer who settled in Nha Trang and is called 'Nha Trang's saint.' It links the museum at the Pasteur Institute he founded, the French-style railway station, and his modest tomb on the Suoi Dau hill where he rests.

Half-day4 stopsEst. budget 22,000 KRW

Itinerary

1
Yersin Museum (Pasteur Institute)Bảo tàng Yersin (Viện Pasteur Nha Trang)
Museum · 50 min stay
A museum inside the Pasteur Institute Yersin founded in 1895. His microscope, lab equipment, letters and astronomical instruments are preserved, so you come face to face with the life of the scientist who identified the plague bacterium and devoted himself to Nha Trang.
08:30-10:30
Taxi 7 min
2
Nha Trang Railway StationGa Nha Trang
Architecture · 20 min stay
An old station built in the French colonial era, retaining Indochina style with a yellow facade. An architecture stop for reading the urban formation of colonial Nha Trang and the atmosphere of Yersin's time.
Walk 5 min
3
Stone Cathedral (Colonial Architecture)Nhà thờ Núi
Architecture · 30 min stay
A granite Gothic church near the station, from the same French colonial era. Just right to view together as the European-style cityscape of Nha Trang in Yersin's day.
Taxi 30 min
4
Yersin's Tomb (Suoi Dau)Mộ bác sĩ Yersin, Suối Dầu
Heritage · 40 min stay
Yersin wished to be buried on the Suoi Dau hill near his agricultural research station. At the small, unadorned tomb, locals still offer incense and flowers in memory of 'Teacher Yersin' — the most meaningful terminus to a journey following him.