Vietnam Travel News

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will receive new 16 planes in the upcoming year, says General Director Pham Ngoc Minh.

A Mi-172 helicopter of the Northern Service Flight Company (NSFC) under the Vietnam Service Flight Corporation (VSFC) made its final tourist service flight for the year on the afternoon of December 25th, marking a successful business year of the company.

Beyond the flower gardens, French-style villas, and verdant terraced fields of Dalat, Lang Biang mountain offers even more breathtaking scenery.

A group of my Vietnamese friends from the US headed by Duong Quang Chan, a businessman, arrived in Ha Noi this week to start a New Year trans-Viet Nam tour and to seek out a suitable place to open a restaurant in the country.

Two South Korean tourists died and three people were critically injured when a taxi crashed into a crane in the central province of Khanh Hoa on Monday morning.

Vietnamese and French archaeologists have discovered a palaeontological site dating back to over 100,000 years in Da Den Cave in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang.

“Daily life in Vietnam” is the topic of a photo exhibition by a French amateur photographer Jean Pierre Tissier at the Vietnam Cultural Centre in Paris, France.

Around 600 Buddhists and 30 artists are working at the Linh Phuoc pagoda in Da Lat city, the central highlands province of Lam Dong to complete an 18m flower Buddha statue for the Da Lat Flower Festival in early January 2010.

Viva Macau Airlines will open a direct route to Hanoi to celebrate the Tet holiday and offer special off-peak fares on the occasion.

Hoi An Lanterns Festival 2010 will take place on February 13-27, on the occasion of the Lunar New Year, said the Hoi An Sports and Culture Centre.

Many tourists who have been on tours to Chay Lap village, Bo Trach district in the central province of Quang Binh said they were overjoyed to have been able to live like a real member of the community.

Cat Ba island near the northern port city of Haiphong has received its one millionth tourist, which marks the vigorous growth of the local tourism sector in recent times.

The gust of cool wind that whispers softly through the pines greet people who come to the remote Mang Den in Kon Tum Province, making them feel they are in the renowned resort city of Dalat to the south in Lam Dong Province.

To join in the celebration of Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary, the Netherlands will present more than 22,000 tulips as a gift to the capital city during the Hanoi Flower Festival from December 30, 2009 to January 3, 2010.

The country’s largest relief of Vietnam’s ancient culture is expected to be completed before the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, which will fall on Oct. 10, 2009.