Hanoi Travel News

The Hanoi Deparment of Culture, Sports & Tourism on June 2nd, 2010 organized a conference to launch programme “Hanoians warmly welcome guests” and “Green Tourism Year”.

Students and kite enthusiasts in Thua Thien - Hue have made some 1,000 kites for flying at the Hue Festival that opens later this week. Later, in October, they will be taken to Ha Noi to be flown during the capital’s 1,000th anniversary celebrations.

A 65 sq.m ceramic picture of vivid colours and images displaying the typical features of Argentina was unveiled on June 2 in Hanoi as part of the "Ceramic Road along the Red River" - the project to celebrate the 1,000 birthday of the capital city.

The second International Puppetry Festival will be held in the capital city of Hanoi from September 20 to 30 as an event to celebrate the millennium anniversary of Thang Long- Hanoi.

A new tour taking visitors to eco-tourism, cultural and historic sites in the Ba Vi district of Hanoi will be launched in July this year in an effort to attract more tourists to the capital on its 1,000th birthday.

“Named after one of the brightest stars of Vietnamese poetry, Nguyen Du is a romantic Hanoi street with a number of ca phe via he (street side cafés), a lakeside view and hoa sua (milky flowers) trees.

Work on the casting of a bell in celebration of the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi began at Quang An Pagoda in Hanoi’s outlying district of Thanh Tri on May 27.

With the theme "Thousand Years Quintessence," the second annual Hanoi Craft Week will be held from August 4-9 at the Hanoi Friendship Cultural Palace to celebrate Hanoi’s anniversary and the national tourism year in Hanoi.

An exhibition introducing the Cham culture will open on May 28th at the Trung Nguyen Creative Space, 36 Dien Bien Phu Street, Hanoi.

One thousand kites will go from Hue to Hanoi this October to celebrate the capital city’s millennial anniversary.

An exhibition of ancient Asian artefacts has got underway in the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi.

Following the success of the first Long Bien Bridge Festival 2009, Nguyen Nga, a Vietnamese-French, is preparing for the second festival to mark Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary.

A photo contest under the theme “A moment of Thang Long” has been launched to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Ha Noi-based Sofitel Metropole Hotel has made the Conde Nast Traveller Hot List 2010, the publication’s annual list of the "66 Coolest New Hotels in the World".