Hanoi Travel News

Vietnam is proud to be one of the first nations in the world to understand the pleasures of drinking tea and how to go about it.

 A series of activities to show Japanese products and art performance are being held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to mark the Mekong-Japan Exchange Year 2009.

Quang Nam Tourism and Culture Week will take place from November 20 to 23 with aim to promote culture, history and tourism of the central province of Quang Nam to Hanoi people and domestic and foreign investors.

Excitement is building in the Vietnamese capital, with the soft opening ceremony of the new 4-star Best Western Muong Thanh in Hanoi set for October 10th, 2009.

The French composer of Vietnamese descent Nguyen Thien Dao has devoted almost a year to the creation of a 60-minute work dedicated to the 1,000th anniversary of Hanoi-Thang Long.

From November 20-23, the heritage house at 87 Ma May Street, Hanoi, will host tea-related cultural activities.

A music festival themed ‘Vietnam-our fatherland’ will be held in Hanoi on November 22-24, drawing the participation of local artists and others from abroad to celebrate the first conference of overseas Vietnamese.

A festival to introduce Korean food, jointly sponsored by the Korean Cultural Centre in Vietnam and the Korean Food Industry Asociation (KIFA), opened at Big C supermarket in Hanoi on November 13.

Hanoi, the city of almost 1,000 years, boasts ancient temples, pagodas and splendid landscapes in harmony with the luxury hotels and restaurants of the developing time.

Sheraton Hanoi has been honoured as Vietnam’s Leading Business Hotel at an annual awards ceremony held by the World Travel Awards in London, UK.

Some 450 war items are on display at an exhibition called Everlasting War Keepsakes which runs until November 10 at the Viet Nam History Museum in Ha Noi. The exhibition features arms, medals, soldiers’ belongings,

Nearly 1,000 Vietnamese nationals abroad have registered for their first conference to be held in Hanoi on November 21-23, said Nguyen Phuong Nga, spokesperson for the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi on November 5.

On Tuesday, for the first time, Hanoians and travelers had the chance to witness and join a traditional cum contemporary art event called ‘Street arts festival’ with the participation of about 150 famous Vietnamese and Danish artists.

Hanoi was among the 10 Asian cities taking part in the eighth conference of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC21), which was held in the Thai capital of Bangkok from October 31 to November 4.

The US-based Huffington Post has named Hanoi among a top ten of great winter destinations.
It lines up alongside St. Petersburg of Russia, Krakow of Poland, Edinburgh of Scotland, Tallinn of Estonia, Tokyo of Japan, Berlin of Germany, India’s Mumbai, Australia’s Sydney and Iceland’s Reykjavik.