Vietnam Travel News

Lang Co was listed as one of the “World’s Most Beautiful Bays” on May 16, 2009 by Worldbays Club, located 70km south of Hue City and 30km north of Danang City.

It is called “floating market” for an obvious reason. On a vast and boundless water surface, hundreds of boats, big and small, gather together and create a floating place for trading activities.

An international fireworks contest will be held with 4 international teams taking part to mark the 35th anniversary of the Central City’s Liberation Day (March 29).

After the success of the first Long Bien Bridge Festival in October 2009, the second will be jointly held by the Vietnam Embassy in France and the Maison des Art (House of Art) company to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long –Hanoi.

The anitque Van Trach Hoa altar house has been chosen for display at the New York Museum in New York, the US, from February 2 to May 2, said a representative of the History and Revolution Museum of Thua Thien Hue Province.

A Vietnam-Laos special cultural exchange programme was held at the Lao National Cultural Palace on Jan. 15 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the two countries’ friendship associations (Jan. 15).

The Prime Minister has agreed to hold “Vietnamese Days” in China and Russia later this year, according to the Government Office.

At a time when the Vietnamese diaspora heads home to celebrate Tet, the Lunar New Year, the trend of going abroad for the holiday has strengthened over the last few years.

Tet travel tours within the country have become a lot more convenient over that last few years.

Music experts have called on administrations at all levels to take part in promoting “Xoan” songs among all classes of people to conserve this fading folk music of the midland province of Phu Tho.

An ancient stone altar belonging to the Cham ethnic group from Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien Hue will be exhibited in a New York museum in the US, from Feb. 2-May 2.

Though the performance in 2009 was not as impressive as in previous years, it still attested to the ability of enterprises to survive the economic storm

Far from a conventional tourism product, the “Going back to the roots” program organized in early 2010

50 Vietnamese artisans will carve the world’s largest statue of Buddha at a weight of 16 tonnes from a 35-tonne jade block measuring 3m tall, 2.15m wide and 2.2m deep.