Vietnam Travel News

The Lim festival in the northern province of Bac Ninh, dedicated to traditional love duet singing, is expected to lure up to 10,000 visitors on the 13th day of the first lunar month or February 26 this year.

Since its debut on Nguyen Tieu day (the 15th day of the first lunar month) in 2003, Vietnamese Poetry Day has become a national tradition in the early spring of each new year.

In Vietnamese folk culture, people often say ‘Thang gieng la thang an choi (The first lunar month is the month to play and enjoy the festive time).

Dinh Mountain, also known as Bong Lai (Heaven) Mountain, located just over 30 kilometers from the famous beach town of Vung Tau and about 90 kilometers from HCMC, is suggested as an ideal venue for those who love stillness, peace and nature.

When mentioning Tay Bac, people think about magnificent mountains, windy hills, immense terraced fields and ladies with tawny complexions in colorful brocade dresses with bamboo papooses on their backs.

On March 27-28, four firework groups from the USA, Japan, France and Portugal will perform firework shows in the central city of Danang.

The organisation and management of Vietnam’s Spring festivals needs to do a job of preserving and promoting national cultural identity in the spirit of the Doi Moi (Renewal) process.

Vietnam and Russia set to further boost collaboration in art and culture from 2010 to 2012 after signing a cooperation programme in Hanoi on Feb. 23.

Works began on a four-star hotel on February 23 in the misty mountainous town of Sa Pa in Lao Cai province.

Jetstar will almost double its services in the HCM City-Singapore route in July with the acquisition of additional aircraft.

The traditional Sinh wrestling festival in Hue will be held next year on a new stage in an effort to modernize the event and preserve the festival’s traditional venue, which is now in ruins.

Officials and representatives of the Buddhist Shangha of the central city of Da Nang received a version of a painting of over 400 years from Jomyo, a Japanese pagoda on February 23.

Visitors flocked to Lai An village in Phu Vang district, Thua Thien – Hue province this morning, February 23, to attend the Sinh village’s wrestling festival.

A Vietnamese traveler died and nine others were injured in a road accident on the way from Pattaya to Bangkok on February 20.