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Hue all set to celebrate biennial festival
Posted by vietnam on 04 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
Artists from 31 countries will perform at the biennial Hue Festival, the central city’s largest cultural celebration, next month. The Hue Festival 2008 attracted 180,000 tourists, including 30,000 foreigners, to the former imperial city (Tuoi Tre) Themed “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development” this time, the event will take place from June 5 to 13. [...]
Saigontourist Promotes Weekend-Summer Tours
Posted by vietnam on 09 May 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
Saigontourist Travel Service Company introducesnew weekend tours for this summer. Touring Can Gio mangrove forest by motorboat The tours include a one-day Can Gio Mangrove Forest tour, priced at VND432,000/tourist, and the two-day tour, priced at VND1,320,000, departing on weekend; a Vung Tau City tour, lasting two days, priced at VND1,550,000, departing from HCM City [...]
Discovering distinction of Vinh Long ceramics
Posted by vietnam on 28 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
Vinh Long Province is known for its orchards and interlacing canals as other provinces in the Mekong Delta. Vinh Long is also famous for a pottery craft village running 20 kilometers along the Co Chien River. A woman whittles ceramic pots in a pottery kiln in Vinh Long Province – Photo: Huy Nguyen Vinh Long [...]
Original flavor of Haiphong sea-crab spring roll
Posted by vietnam on 24 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
Fried nem, which is also known as spring roll, has long been considered one of the symbols of Vietnamese cuisine. That’s why it appears in all the three regions of Vietnam with a little difference in spice and shape. Among them, Haiphong City’s sea-crab spring roll leaves something special in gourmets’ souls for its sweet [...]
Phan Thiet to host int’l balloon festival
Posted by vietnam on 17 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
Authorities in Phan Thiet City have announced to host an international balloon festival late this year after their participation in the second International Balloon Festival which took place in Malaysia late last week. Up up and away my beautiful balloon – Photo: The organizers Chien Thang Company is planning for teams of balloonists to practice [...]
Up to highlands, getting lost in nature
Posted by vietnam on 14 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
In the summer, going to the highlands must be an ideal option for tourists to getting closer to nature and escape from the hot and muggy of the tropical summer in HCMC. Visiting magnificent waterfalls, poetic vegetable and flower gardens and strolling around endless pine hills will be nice experiences in Dalat, the city in [...]
A Vietnamese empanada can hit the spot
Posted by vietnam on 09 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
For a little treat between meals, locals in Ho Chi Minh City seek out roadside stalls for a small semicircular pastry called banh quai vac to ease their craving for fried food. Banh quai vac is a type of fried or baked flour pastry filled with either fruit or meat – Photo courtesy of Mon [...]
Hoi An’s little towns serve up tasty treats
Posted by vietnam on 05 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
The UNESCO World Heritage listed town of Hoi An is known for its centuries-old streets, lanterns, tailors, Chinese temples, beaches and the Hoai River, which snakes its way through the emerald patchwork of paddy fields before discharging itself into the ocean. Hen xuc banh trang, a combination of clams and crispy rice paper But one [...]
Banh it la gai, a little slice of Binh Dinh
Posted by vietnam on 03 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
The central province of Binh Dinh, around 1,655 kilometers south of Hanoi, is often described by many as a cradle of Vietnamese traditional martial arts. Banh it la gai, a small black cake, is becoming popular as a dessert and snack at festivals and parties (Photo courtesy of Mon Ngon Viet Nam Magazine) But for [...]
Breathtaking views of Ba Be National Park
Posted by vietnam on 02 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Travel
Awesome, stunning and magnificent are among the adjectives one must use to describe the Ba Be National Park in the northeastern upland province of Bac Kan. It is a real awesome experience to get a glimpse of the country’s only natural mountain lake which stretches about 8km in the north-south direction. Widow Island is a [...]
