With overseas trips increasingly popular for Tet holidays, air carriers have announced that tickets are running out and as a result – fees are high.
Travel firms have confirmed that despite the economic downturn and high prices, Vietnamese people are still planning to travel abroad this Tet in large numbers. In fact, the number of [...]
The apricot and peach trees in early bloom signal the advent of Vietnam’s biggest holiday of the year, or Tet. Around the country, families are preparing glutinous rice and other ingredients to make banh chung and banh tet for this Lunar New Year.
A Vietnamese family wrap banh tet.
Staff of the HCMC-headquartered travel [...]
The government has permitted Vietnam Airlines to set up four new air routes from Vietnam to Laos and Cambodia.
The new routes comprise Na San – Ladon – Aksag, Nam Ha – Vilao – Pakse, Cam Ranh – Mesox and Phu Cat – Bunta.
The Na San – Ladon – Aksag will help shorten flights from [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – At La Dolce Vita in downtown Saigon’s ancient Hotel Continental Saigon, the sound of coffee dripping from the filter can be heard despite the ruckus from the street as this terrace café is partly sheltered from the city noise by a low brick wall and is situated at an angle that [...]
The Champa Museum, located by the Han River in downtown Da Nang, is one of the most popular destinations for foreign tourists to the central city.
The entrance to the Champa Museum in Da Nang.
Built in 1915 it houses nearly 2,000 sculptures made by the Indian-influenced Cham civilisation that flourished in Viet Nam between the [...]
Vietnam will soon promote the country’s image on China’s television channels this year with an aim to attract visitors from the biggest market of Vietnam’s inbound tourism sector.
Ha Long Bay.
The Travel Department under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) says a film about the country’s tourism and an advertising video clip would [...]
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines is scheduled to receive 16 Airbus A321 aircraft in 2010 to expand its fleet of 58 planes.
The corporation has transported about 9.3 million passengers this year, including more than six million on domestic routes, increasing by 16% on the year before.
The airline plans to open new routes to Northeast [...]
When we arrived, Ba Na Mountain was sinking into the curtains of mist that was formed by the early winter rain. Although it was just afternoon, the mountain turned into a darker green landscape under the sky shrouded in dark clouds. To some extent, we were not lucky when making the trip there in rainy [...]
The Civil Aviation Administration said it would give Indochina Airlines, the country’s only private carrier, a chance to resume services in mid-January after it failed to do so late last year.
Vo Huy Cuong, head of the administration’s Aviation Transport Department, said that although the administration had warned that it would revoke Indochina’s license if [...]
A relic from the past offers a new way to sightsee the resort town of Da Lat.
A restoration of the old train has added to the allure of Da Lat
“It’s a pity that it is very short. I just want to travel like this from morning till evening!”
American tourist Kim Fieldhouse echoes the sentiments [...]
