Ha Giang is one of the remotest region which still stay away from the mass tourism. The province offers beautiful landscapes, scenery and a rich ethnic culture. The best way to reach Ha Giang province is by road. Travelers can hire a private vehicle and drive to Ha Giang from Hanoi. The journey takes about [...]
Sapa is a small market town that has been a gathering spot for many local hilltribes for nearly 200 years. Hmong and Dao people, among others, still come here to conduct trade, socialize. Most people come to Sapa to enjoy the beautiful scenery of terraced paddy fields and to experience the rich ethnic culture. The [...]
The flooding situation in Thailand is mainly affecting the central provinces along the Chao Phraya River including Bangkok and Ayutthaya. Other popular tourist destinations in the central region including Pattaya, Hua Hin, Kanchanaburi and Ko Chang have not been affected by the floods. Tourist destinations in the south of Thailand including Phuket, Krabi, Surat Thani, [...]
ASEAN foreign ministers at their 44th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Bali recently agreed to study the common visa proposal further, said Widya Rahmanto, an official of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry’s ASEAN Cooperation Directorate General. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, which holds the current ASEAN Chair, hoped the upcoming ASEAN Summit would agree on the [...]
A long-forgotten air raid shelter was found earlier this week at the landmark Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi when construction workers, who laid the foundation of a new garden bar, struck the shelter’s roof. After excavating more than two meters of earth and reinforced concrete and then jack-hammering through a 278-millimeter ceiling, the hotel opened the [...]
The flooding in Thailand is mainly affecting the central provinces along the Chao Phraya River including Bangkok and Ayutthaya. Other popular tourist destinations in the central region including Pattaya, Hua Hin, Kanchanaburi and Ko Chang have not been affected by the floods. Provinces in the south of Thailand also have not been affected by the [...]
Ca Mau floating market is located in the Ganh Hao River. It is opened from 4 am to 8pm. Unlike other inland markets, the ca mau floating market includes hundreds of boats with small and big size, all goods hang on the poles at the boat prow. Produce mainly at the market is agricultural goods, [...]
Thua Thien Hue is a province in the North Cantral Coast of Vietnam, approximately in the center of the country at latitude of 16-16°8′N and longitude 107°8′-108°2′E, which borders Quang Tri Provice to the north and Da Nang City to the south, Laos to the west and the South China Sea to the east. The [...]
Ho Chi Minh mausoleum is located in the centre of Ba Dinh square, which is the place where Ho read the Declaration of Independence on September 2, 1945, establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This is the resting place of president Ho Chi Minh’body. The construction of the mausoleum begun to work on September 2nd [...]
Hanoi Old Quarter is an interesting place to walk around and good ideal for shopping. The old quarter cosists 36 streets inside and some new streets. There are many things to see and lots of merchants located very near Hoan Kiem lake, including a night market which held from Friday to Sunday. There are lots [...]
The Lam Dong provincial People’s Committee held a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on September 9 to introduce the 4th Da Lat Flower Festival to be held in Da Lat from December 5-30. The festival is a national cultural and tourism festival which is held biannually. The event will showcase nine programmes of [...]
Located 69 kilometers from Lao Cai Town, there are three buses daily to Bac Ha from Lao Cai bus station at 6 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tourists from Hanoi can catch a train to Pho Lu then take a motorbike taxi to Bac Ha for 50km. Also from Sapa travelers can hire a [...]
There are about a thousand of tour operators and travel agents which are licensed in Vietnam. The companies that don’t have a travel license or they operate illegally are also numerous. So how can you find the right tour operator? First of all, you have to know what you will look for or which activities [...]
This market of the H’Mong and Red Dao minorities takes place every Saturday night. The market is a place for trading and exchanging local goods and products, as well as a meeting place for young people who seek partners by singing love songs and playing pan-pipes and mouth organs. When the sun goes down, the [...]
Ba Be National Park is a reserve in Bac Kam province, Northeast Vietnam, set up to protect a freshwater lake (Ba be Lake) along with surrounding limestone and lowland evergreen forests. It is located about 240 kilometers northwest of the capital city Ha Noi. The park is a tropical-rainforest area with over 550 named plant [...]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has announced that the Cat Tien Biosphere Reserve was renamed the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve. UNESCO’s recognition of the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve showed that the Management Board of Dong Nai Nature Reserve and Cultural Site had actively and effectively co-ordinated with the National Committee for [...]
The Ba Be National Park in the northern mountainous province of Bac Can has been named on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands List as a Wetland of International Importance. The biodiverse 10,048-ha park is home to 1,268 species of flora and fauna. The site earlier was recognised as an ASEAN Heritage Park in 2004. As [...]
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