Vietnam Travel News

A team of journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will come to Vietnam to examine climate change issues in the country and broadcast them to the world, said a BBC official.

 More than 60 scientists have joined their Vietnamese colleagues to tour a number of archaeological sites in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa.

Ten five-star hotels in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) will continue extending a 50% discount on rooms for Vietnamese tourists through December 31st, replacing the initial plan of end of October.

A train built based on a 1930s French design began shuttling tourists in the central highlands resort town of Dalat on Friday.

Taiwanese airlines TransAsia has said it would resume direct flights to Da Nang on December 26, four years after they were withdrawn.

Cam Ranh airport in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will become an international airport with the opening of an official direct air route linking Cam Ranh and Vladivostock in Russia on December 12.

 Nine stories of the lives, dreams and struggles of people living in the three Mekong River nations of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia are now spotlighted at an exhibition in Ha Noi.

Based on the classic drama Ngheu, So, Oc, Hen (Mussel, Oyster, Snail and Clam), director of the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre Nguyen Hoang Tuan, has produced a puppet performance entitled Nang Hen.

My Tho Town offers a welcome respite from the rough and tumble of Ho Chi Minh City.

The most beautiful postcards and landscape paintings or photo-graphs come to life with just one glimpse of Cham Island (commonly known in Vietnamese as Cu Lao Cham).

Floating markets. Coconut candy and rice paper making. Tropical fruits. Boat rides. It’s another advertisement in a Pham Ngu Lao travel agency for a day trip to the Mekong Delta!

Vinpearl Resort & Spa in Nha Trang Bay has since November 1, 2009 been offering a special vacation package for guests to enjoy luxurious room accommodations, free buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner with an exciting variety of delicious Asian and European foods and a staggering array of entertainment options.

The second international sculpture creation camp entitled “Impression of Hung Vuong ancestral land” opened at the Hung Kings’ Temple Complex in the northern midland province of Phu Tho on December 3, 2009.

Over 40 wood-block paintings printed on poonah-paper, featuring normal daily life of Vietnamese people are on show in Paris, France. The black and white paintings, made by Vietnamese painter Hoang Minh Phuc are the first of its kind to be displayed in France.

The Vietnam-China Trade and Tourism Fair opened in Mong Cai city, in the northern province of Quang Ninh, on Dec. 4. Businesses of all economic sectors from the two countries are displaying their products and services at 400 pavilions.