Vietnam Travel News

A photo exhibition entitled “Vietnam – Land and People” opened at the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia in Moscow on November 10.

Phu Lang is one of the two ancient pottery villages in northern Vietnam. Leonard Pascal, chairman of a Belgian pottery association, paid a visit to Phu Lang two years ago and discovered that many Japanese pottery items were produced in this small village.

The Jarai ethnic minority group ceremony to welcome the harvest was restored as a key event for the International Gong Festival in Gia Lai, held from November 12-15.

Thousands of visitors to the International Gong Festival 2009 in Gia Lai flocked to the Ve Nguon tourist site in Pleiku city on November 14 to watch the buffalo stabbing ceremony of Mo Hra village.

 The famous Belgium pianist, Charles Loos, will perform at the European Music Festival in Hanoi on November 26 and Ho Chi Minh City on November 28.

 The International Gong festival concluded on November 15 after four days with 14 events taking place in Pleiku and one in Hanoi.

 A Vietnamese Cultural Centre officially opened in Berlin, Germany on November 15.

An international seminar on the changes of socio-economic life and gong culture preservation in Vietnam and Southeast Asia was held in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on Nov. 14.

Volendam cruise ship, Holland American Lines, carried out nearly 1,200 tourists, mainly from the U.S., to Vietnam’s Central Coastal Danang City on November 12th.

The low-cost carrier, Thai AirAsia reported it would operate a direct route linking Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and Phuket with a daily flight starting December 3rd.

A specialty noodle dish in Hoi An can be made only with water from a thousand-year-old local well.

But for how long, visitors to the northern village of Cu Da are bound to ask.

A conference on Gong culture took place in the central highland city of Pleiku on November 14 as part of the ongoing International Gong Festival 2009.

Professor Guenter Giesenfeld, Chairman of the Germany-Vietnam Friendship Society, has handed over more than 100 black-and-white photos taken by German director Vasco Filipov to Minister Counsellor Bui Manh Cuong at the Vietnamese embassy in Germany.

Detective and horror-story writer Di Li has brought out a new book called Dao Thien Duong (Heaven Island).