Vietnam Travel News

The fourth conference on investment, trade promotion and tourism in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle will take place in Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak province, from November 10-12, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has decided to invest VND31 billion (around US$1.73 million) in eight new satellite database centres that preserve information on intangible cultural heritages of ethnic groups in the country.

The Da Lat Flower Festival 2010 will be held from January 1 and 4, the People’s Committee of Lam Dong Province has announced.
The event, “Da Lat: The city of a thousand flowers,” will present to local and international visitors its various kinds of flowers, and cultural activities and sport competitions, such as the Da Lat flower market;

AirAsia announced November 6 the beginning of a service between Ho Chi Minh City and the Thai resort city of Phuket.

The PM authorized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), in coordination with relevant ministries and agencies, to negotiate with Egypt, Italy, Lithuania and Spain about agreements on visa exemption.

Land in mountainous areas has become “golden” with developers looking to higher ground for higher profits.

Amid an endless primeval forest, an immense green field of grass appears as gently as a sleeping princess waiting for the steps of tourists to wake her up.

The 2041 Organisation, responsible for selecting participants for the International Antarctic Treaty Expedition (IATE 2009), has announced the names of 6 Vietnamese who will travel to the Antarctic as part of the expedition.

 The carvings on 82 Steles in the Temple of Literature need to be translated before being submitted to the Asia Pacific Region’s UNSECO office in November.

Da Lat city in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will host a flower festival from Jan. 1-4 next year as part of activities to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. Festival activities will include a flower market and an international flower and ornamental plants exhibition.

The opening event of the Hue Festival 2010 is scheduled for the anniversary, December 22, of the crowning day of a historic Vietnamese hero - King Quang Trung - Nguyen Hue.

In the high-tide season, a lot of people flock to the Mekong Delta not only to drift on the swollen rivers but to know more of the hardships and the lifestyle of people in the Delta.
Not boasting clear, blue water, the rivers of the Mekong Delta are a humble dark red year round.

 The Meet Vietnam 2009 programme will take place in San Francisco, California, the US, from November 15-16, beginning a series of activities to promote Vietnam’s external economic sector as well as the image of the country in California.