Vietnam Travel News

A group of Japanese university lecturers has researched the Hanoi Old Quarter for five years under a project to preserve and develop the Old Quarter in a sustainable manner.

Airline representatives with indirect air routes to Europe stated that visitors who are stuck in Vietnam as of April 18 may have to wait 5-10 days to return home.

Vietnam Airlines has cancelled flights to and from Europe due to ash from a volcano in Iceland that has forced the temporary shut-down of two major international airports in France and Germany.

Vietnam Airlines plans to increase the number of domestic flights to serve holiday makers during the celebration of the Liberation of South Vietnam (April 30) and May Day.

Archaeologists in the central province of Quang Ngai have found relics dating back some 4,000 years, encouraging scientists to study afresh one of Vietnam’s most prominent cultures.

Around 3000 artefacts, made in different shapes and sizes of Vietnamese dragons, are on display at the Vietnam History Museum in Ho Chi Minh City as of April 17.

The number of visitors to this year’s Hung Kings Temple Festival has increased sharply over the past five days, according to the festival organising board.

Bac Ninh Festival 2010 opened at the Kinh Bac Cultural Centre on the evening of April 17.

The heat is getting to Ho Chi Minh City. We’re tired, irritable and even depressed. Some have tried to escape the sun’s stinging rays in the shade of a tree or in the shelter of an air-conditioned room.

Both the cave and the jungle that surrounds it would be endangered by tourists, says a geomorphologist

Good bargain? Visitors will be offered discounts of 10-50 percent when shopping at some tourism sites in August and September.

British and American explorers have announced many new discoveries about Son Doong, the world’s largest cave which was recently unveiled in the central province of Quang Binh.

Business performance of four to five-star hotels in HCMC in the first quarter was positive with revenue per available room up 10% compared to 2009’s last quarter, according to a Savills Vietnam Ltd. report.

Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang of HCM City’s District 4 had to stand two hours in the queue this week to buy a bus ticket for April 29 to Bao Loc Town in Lam Dong Province.

Ham Rong Mountain, which belongs to the majestic Hoang Lien Son Range in Sapa District, Lao Cai Province and is about 30 kilometers from Lao Cai Town, looks like a jaw of a dragon opening wide to the sky.