Hanoi Travel News

The Thang Long-Hanoi website of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) officially launched its Japanese language version on August 3.

The international tourism festival of 2010 to welcome the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi and the National Tourism Year 2010 will be held on October 2-5th in Bao Son Paradise.

Hanoi Craft Week 2010 themed ‘A Thousand Years of Quintessence’ opened on August 4 at the Hanoi Friendship Culture Palace, No. 91 Tran Hung Dao street in Hanoi.

Taking place from 6-11/2010 at Ho Tay Park, Hanoi Food Festival 2010 is among the activities of the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi celebration.

A total of 120 photos on China’s world heritage sites are on display at an exhibition in Hanoi.

The third International Festival of Traditional Vietnamese Martial Arts opened in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 1, marking the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi becoming the nation’s capital.

A night festival with flowers and coloured lanterns, entitled Thang Long Hallmark, was held at the Thang Long Royal Citadel, near the HCM Mausoleum, on Saturday to celebrate the 1,000th birthday of the capital.

A fireworks festival will be held at My Dinh national stadium on October 10 as part of the cultural and artistic night to mark Thang Long-Hanoi millennium anniversary.

"I was with my parents, and we were riding on a boat amongst a sea of lotus flowers. I felt like a fairy princess in my favourite childhood movie, Journey to the West," Hoang Kieu To Uyen recalls, as if it had happened just yesterday.

A live television programme linking Hanoi, Vientiane and Paris will be held on July 31, presenting images of the thousand-year history and culture of Thang Long-Hanoi to the world.

As there are only about three months left to the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, important cultural projects are being accelerated to complete in time for the national celebration, reports the Vietnam News Agency.

In the eyes of Chris Anderson, a journalist of CNNGO, a CNN program on Asian tourism, Hanoi’s Old Quarter is hectic, noisy, chaotic and adjective.

Occupancy rates of 3-5 star hotels in Hanoi rose to 54.52 percent in the second quarter of the year, a year-on-year increase of 10.26 percent.

Vietnam Buddhist Shangha on July 2 announced a series of events from July 27 to August 2 to celebrate the capital city’s millennial anniversary.

Much has changed, but much has stayed the same as Hanoi’s famous old quarter weathers the storms of modernity