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Ho Chi Minh City has plans to implement a new project to restore and preserve the old heritage architectural buildings located within the city. Ben Thanh market, one of antique architectural relics to be preserved According to Nguyen Trong Hoa, Head of the Institute of Research and Development of HCMC, while old heritage buildings [...]
The Phu My Hung Spring Flower Festival this year hopes to bring a richer assortment of blossoms to attract more residents and visitors during the Lunar New Year holiday. The five-day event, co-hosted by the Ho Chi Minh City-based Phu My Hung Corporation and the Association of Orchids and Ornamental Trees, will open at 7:30pm [...]
The Saigon River has a host of tributaries, of which many have remained heavily polluted but some have been cleaned up, allowing fish to return. If some might think of going to the bar, café, theater or tourist park for recreation, other Saigonese love fishing at night. Fishing is not new but doing it in [...]
The mountainous district of Moc Chau in Son La Province has been an ideal destination for those who seek for peace or romantic getaways. Surrounded by hills planted with tea, Moc Chau, which is 190 kilometres northwest of Hanoi, looks charming in the fog and the cold of the forest. Many believe that this is [...]
The largest tourist development project in Viet Nam will start in eight northwestern mountain provinces next year. Local authorities, officials from the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), tourism operators and training institutions in the region gathered in Lao Cai City yesterday to discuss the plan. One of the first steps to be [...]
A story of Huong River in the central city of Hue is being told by 100 videos and photographs by both professional and amateur photographers. A visitor at the exhibition The exhibition, which belongs to a community project named “The Story of a River”, initiated by artist Phan Le Chung, features the works of those [...]
Nui Chua National Park, in the central province of Ninh Thuan, is considered “a desert” thanks to its dry conditions and low rainfall. Chasing waterfalls: Treo Lake on Mount Da Vach offers a charming and romantic landscape. High and dry: Rocks by the lakeshore. — File Photos Backpackers: Eco-tourists are drawn by [...]
Pho Hien is a historical site in Hung Yen Province, about 70 kilometres southeast of Hanoi. In the 15th to 18th centuries it was a famous merchant port in Vietnam and it was a small historic town on the banks of the Red River. Especially, the prosperous time of Pho Hien was associated with the [...]
An Bang Beach in Cam An ward, Hoi An City, has been listed among the world’s top 50 most beautiful beaches by CNNGo Asian tourism magazine. To keep the beach clean and beautiful, hundreds of local people, youths and students volunteered to clear up and protect the environment surrounding the beach on November 4. Dinh [...]
Tourists often overlook the beautiful scenery in the Northern provinces, that lie between Sapa to the west, and China to the north and west. Vietnam, though comparable in size to Finland, Norway or Germany, may feel like a huge country with a multitude of tourist destinations known as thousands of miles of coastline, mountains, river [...]