For those who like to plan ahead, vacation ownership deals are now up for grabs in Vietnam, writes Son Tran.
Sea Links Golf & Country Club in Phan Thiet has become one of the country’s first resorts to offer vacation ownership. You can purchase a vacation ownership contract for $12,000-$15,000 for a term of 20 years. [...]
Local residents offer tourism services and visitors turn into local fishermen – that’s the ethos on eco-tours initiated by 29-year-old Tran Van Khoa, who was born into a fisherman’s family and who used to work in Hoi An’s Victoria Hotel as a receptionist.
First throw: A tourist tries to net fish at the Cua Dai [...]
A clip promoting Viet Nam tourism has been broadcast twice a day on BBC television. It features a panorama of Viet Nam and its people.
Promotion: Foreign tourists visit the Cai Rang floating market in Can Tho City. — VNA/VNS Photo
This is the first time Viet Nam has promoted its national image globally through television.
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A bowl of mussel soup, a cool and delicious dish in the northern countryside.
Most farmers in the northern river deltas lead the same simple life and concentrate their energies on tending their crops and livestock. They eat simple meals and care little for overly sophisticated dishes.
For a meal, they may cut [...]
HCMC, the southern economic hub, has won most awards for top hotels and tour operators for 2008, followed by the capital city of Hanoi, according to an annual selection conducted nationwide by the Vietnam Tourism Association.
International tourists enjoy a biking tour in the Mekong Delta region arranged by Ben Thanh Tourist Company. The travel firm [...]
The management unit in charge of investment projects in Phu Quoc island off the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang will revoke an investment certificate and cancel out 11 investment plans by investors on the island, an official said.
Phu Quoc island has a coastline of some 150 kilometers.
Nguyen Van Hon, deputy director of the unit, [...]
A German television crew from Medien Kontor will visit Vietnam in July to make a documentary about Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh, said the park’s director Luu Minh Thanh.
Phong Nha cave will be introduced in a documentary film made by German television Medien Kontor.
The film, [...]
Sitting on a palanquin in a modern style, the king using a mobile phone, the crying princess… are funny moments of visitors at the Hue royal citadel in several minutes in the costume of a king.
Paying 30,000 dong to hire a royal costume, anyone can sit on the throne in Hue royal palace.
For taking [...]
Những dãy núi điệp trùng, rừng xanh thăm thẳm ở miền tây Nghệ An được độc giả Nguyễn Thành Giang ghi lại
Vùng quê Con Cuông.
Những đồi chè xanh ngắt.
Dãy núi điệp trùng.
Bản nhỏ giữa núi đồi.
Nhà Bác.
Đường lên Con Cuông.
Sông Giăng.
Thác Kèm.
Nguyễn Thành Giang
Every aspect of the Rice Goddess ceremony, Mnhum Yang Potai, is highly symbolic.
Chu Ru women dance after honoring the Rice Goddess in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong
“Red symbolizes sweat, blood, and the energy needed to grow rice,” says Ya Hang, a 53-year old leader of the ethnic Chu Ru community in [...]
