Vietnam Travel News

Air France has announced a schedule to conduct non-stop services between Paris and HCMC later this year under a new code-share agreement clinched with Vietnam Airlines.

The management board of Quan The Am Pagoda held a ceremony to break ground for the country’s first jade pagoda in the 32ha Ngu Hanh Son sanctuary park in the central city of Danang.

On the occasion of Reunification Day, April 30, and International Labor Day, May 1, tour operators are offering many attractive tours with diverse options from beaches and mountains to sanctuaries and historical and cultural relics.

These days, with Saigon in the grip of a crippling heat wave that has sent temperatures as high as 38ºC, hiding in the shade of trees and getting lost in nature should be an awesome experience to flee the scorching heat.

Vietnam’s tourism is planning more promotion activities in China as well as direct meetings between travel firms of the two countries to lure more Chinese passport holders.

A national-level commemoration of the first rulers of Vietnam – the Hung Kings – will be organised during ten days this month in the northern province of Phu Tho and two days in other provinces and cities throughout the country.

The Long Chau fishermen’s prayer festival is held annually in Ngu Loc commune, Hau Loc district, in the central province of Thanh Hoa from February 21-24 according to the Lunar Calendar.

Thanh Hoa Province yesterday held a festival that attracted thousands of local fishermen and tourists to come and pray for a year of good luck.

A group of students from the Vietnam-America vocational training school has made unique paintings of landscapes, animals and still-lifes using rice, tree bark, newspaper and bamboo toothpicks to raise funds for charity.

Eight international airlines with routes to Ho Chi Minh City have agreed to project video clips introducing Ho Chi Minh City’s 100 interesting sights on its flights to Ho Chi Minh City, according to La Quoc Khanh, the deputy head of the Municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

On the occasion of the Goddess of Mercy Festival the central city of Da Nang begun construction of a stone pagoda on April 3.

The Executive Board of the Buddhist Sangha of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum organised a ground- breaking ceremony for the Khanh Phuoc Tam Linh Buddhist Tourism Complex on Dak La commune on April 3.

Vietnam Airlines (VNA) opened it’s newest international flights from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to Shanghai this week.

The 6th annual Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Day Festival will promote the burgeoning metropolis as a prime Vietnam travel destination this month.