Vietnam Travel News

A wide range of activities will take place in the northern province of Phu Tho to celebrate the death anniversary of the Hung Kings and the opening of the Hung Temple Festival, to take place from April 14 to 23.

Some 2,000 cruise tourists from Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and other European countries enjoyed the new year celebrations in the city of Hoi An on December 31.

Binh Thuan Province welcomed 2.2 million tourists in 2009, up 10% year-on-year, including 222,000 foreigners, up 13.7% year-on-year,

Gau Tao (New Year) Festival, the largest festival of the Mong ethnic group has been held at Suoi Dong Village

Indochina Airlines, Vietnam’s only fully-private passenger carrier, will be allowed to resume services on January 20 after a two month suspension, the Civil Aviation Administration said Thursday.

The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Ben Tre will stage a five-day festival starting on January 15 in honour of its native fruit, the coconut, provincial officials said at a press conference.

 Like Cai Be market in Tien Giang, the Cai Rang floating market on the Can Tho River is also very popular in the Mekong delta.

 Around 40 groups of artists from 29 countries and territories have registered to perform at the Festival Hue 2010 under the theme “Cultural heritage with integration and development”

Many farmers in Bao Dap village of Nam Dinh have sold rice and even their land to buy musical instruments.

With thousands of years of history, Hanoi treasures its collection of temples and pagodas and its accompanying traditional customs and festivals, including the worship of genii at four sacred temples surrounding Thang Long citadel.

The district of Hoan Kiem in central Hanoi and the Dong Xuan Joint Stock Company will introduce two inner city tours using battery-charged electric cars.

HCMC, the country’s biggest tourism center, has mapped out a plan for launching a tourism marketing campaign at home and abroad to speed up a recovery of the sector hurt by the global downturn last year.

The giant statue of the Goddess of Mercy, which is made from the largest jade block in the world, will be brought to Vietnam in mid-January 2010.

Tan Quy Dong Flower Village, located in Sadec Town in the Mekong Delta’s Dong Thap Province, is busy in the peak flower-growing season to brace for the coming Tet holiday.
Hundreds of daisy pots are preparing to bloom for the Tet holiday.