Vietnam Travel News

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology will organise a Lunar New Year program with a number of regionally-representative cultural activities from February 19th to 21st this year.

Situated in the middle of Deo Gio primeval forest in Ha Giang province’s Xin Man district at the height of 1,480 metres, the Thac Tien (fairy waterfall), a national natural heritage, attracts special attention of tourists by its natural beauty and imposing scene.

Memories of a battle-torn Cu Chi in her youth, when she fought in the tunnels, have spurred a veteran soldier to turn the land into a park to preserve its history.

60 foreign families participated in a Vietnamese square rice cake (banh chung) package contest at Seahorse resort in the southern province of Binh Thuan on Jan.27.

Tourism sector needs to focus on the local market, considering it as the sector’s key to future development, a high-ranking official has said.

The recovery in HCMC’s hospitality industry has been heralded in the first month of the year as the city earns an estimated VND3.1 trillion in tourism revenue, a sharp increase of 15% year-on-year, the tourism department says in a just-released report.

Hoping to replicate the success of the Avignon Festival in France and the Adelaide Festival in Australia, organisers of the Hue Festival, staged every two years in Hue City – Vietnam’s ancient capital, hope the cultural celebration will draw world attention to the splendours of central Thua Thien-Hue Province.

Over 410,000 foreigners travelled to Viet Nam in January, an increase of 20.4 per cent over the same period last year and 10 per cent compared with December, 2009, according to the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Memories of a battle-torn Cu Chi in her youth, when she fought in the tunnels, have spurred a veteran soldier to turn the land into a park to preserve its history.

The number of international tourists coming to Vietnam was estimated at over 416.000 people in January, an increase of 20.4% over the same period last year, reported the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

The Tich Dien Mua Xuan (Spring Ploughing) Festival, initiated more than 1,000 years ago to promote agriculture, will take place in the northern province of Ha Nam from February 18-20 (from the fifth to seventh day of the first lunar month).

The northern province of Bac Ninh has launched a contest on 1000 cultural years of Thang Long – Hanoi among cadres, young people, and people from all walks of life in the province.