Vietnam Travel News

Among hundreds of tourism sites around the country, one stands out for what it represents – the original version of what we call the agricultural-based Vietnam – the complex of eco-tourism and craft village Mot Thoang Viet Nam (Passage to Vietnam) in HCMC’s Cu Chi district.

The central coast province of Phu Yen will ask the World's Most Beautiful Bays Club to recognize the province's Xuan Dai Bay as one of the most beautiful bays in the world, an official of the province said.

Vietnam’s Quan Ho folk songs were recognised as “Intangible Cultural Heritage” by UNESCO on September 30.

National carrier Vietnam Airlines said Thursday it will add one new route and more flights on existing routes beginning this month.

The United Nations Educational Scientific, and Cultural Organisation on October 1 has inscribed Vietnam’s Ca Tru on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Vietnamese travellers to the US can save both time and money to renew their visas by mail, according to the US Embassy in Vietnam.

The annual Nghinh Ong or Whale Worship Festival, a traditional festival for fishermen, will begin on October 2 in HCMC’s coastal district, Can Gio. The four-day festival will open at several venues at 8am in Can Thanh Town.

A cultural, sports and tourism festival will be held for the first time in the Red River Delta region.

Walking streets are a cultural feature of modern urban centres, attracting visitors of special tastes like walking, shopping and sight-seeing. They are also a series of interactive spaces for tourists and local citizens.

The Van Don Airport project, under the Vietnam’s Northern Province of Quang Ninh’s Van Don Economic Zone (EZ), schedules to be built in 2010, with the aim of developing the destination as Vietnam’s leading trade, financial, and tourism center of the future.

For the women making thin gold sheets at Kieu Ky village, winter is something.

 Almost 1,000 children gathered on September 30 at a sports centre in the capital’s Ung Hoa District to celebrate the mid-autumn festival.
The night festival was a cheerful event as children sang and danced together to welcome the “Moon of Love”.

Dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests will be performing Travelogue – Twenty to Eight at the Hanoi Opera House on Oct. 2.

The scientific file on the Ho Dynasty Citadel has been sent to Paris for consideration by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as a world heritage site.

From September 30 all vehicles will have freedom of movement between the Samat international border gate in Tay Ninh Province in Vietnam and the TrapeangPlong border gate in KamPongCham Province, Cambodia.