Hanoi Travel News

A Charity Journey from HCM City to Ha Noi 2010, a nine-day caravan to commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of Ha Noi, has left HCM City on its first leg to Binh Thuan.

Poland flag carrier, LOT Polish Airlines, on August 18 announced that it will open the Hanoi-Warsaw air route in mid-November this year.

The World Guinness Book representatives will go to Hanoi to evaluate the Hanoi Ceramic Road in September.

Hanoi International Tourism Festival and the Ha Thanh Food Festival are two hightlights contributing to the jubilant atmosphere of the Great Anniversary of 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Hanoi Center for Information and Tourism Promotion (Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism),

“Thang Long-Hanoi in the HCM City age – Years to define the country” exhibition will open at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi on August 17 to introduce the public to magnificent periods in Hanoi’s history.

Thang Long Lantern Parade, the largest event of its kind so far, will take place on Mid-Aautumn Festival Eve on September 22 around Hoan Kiem Lake.

It is hard to find someone with greater knowledge of food and culture in Hanoi than writer Thach Lam.

The Hanoi municipal People’s Committee will cooperate with Fukuoka prefecture of Japan to organise Fukuoka Cultural Days in Hanoi from August 10-13.

A doorman protects the entrance to your home but for the city of Ha Noi, four deities take care of that job.

Four pilot tours have been launched in the craft villages of Van Ha Wood, Ha Thai Lacquer, Chuon Ngo Painting, Bat Trang Pottery, Phu Vinh Bamboo and Rattan Weaving and Quat Dong embroidery, according to Mrs Trinh Thi Hong Loan, Head of the Management Office of Craft Industry under the Hanoi Trade and Industry Department.

To honor Hanoi’s unique cultural beauty and bring contemporary arts to life, artist Tran Hau Yen The and his co-workers will open an exhibition about Hanoi’s Old Quarter on August 15.

The grand ceremony of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi will take place in the next more than 50 days.

Typical Malaysian food and drinks will be introduced during the Malaysian Culinary Week to be organised at Melia Hotel, Hanoi from August 26 to 31.

Many artisans in Hanoi have raised concerns about how maintain and develop craft villages, which are at risk of being lost from the impacts of the socio-economic development process.