During Tet (the traditional Lunar New Year holiday), Saigon is always different as its streets are not as crowded as usual and one can see beautiful flowers, fruits, ornamental trees and revelers with beautiful clothes and smiling faces. In case your schedule for Tet…
Every house has a kitchen; every kitchen has its gods. And you’d better treat them well, because they are guardian angels/special agents sent from heaven. Vietnamese people adore their Kitchen Gods. They have a day just for them during the busy Tet festival. On…
Ambassador Camilla Mellander and all staff members at the Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi have made a three-minute video to send greetings to Vietnamese people for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday. The ambassador in a traditional ao dai conveyed her greetings and also joined…
Mai Cam Linh took her Indonesian boss to a cloth shop in Ben Thanh Market and ordered a piece similar to one just bought by a group of Vietnamese customers. But they were charged three times more. “Foreigners pay different prices,” the shop owner…
Many tourists are willing to wait in long queues and pay higher for a trip to explore the beauty of Son Doong Cave inside the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh, a local newspaper reported. The…
Vietnam’s conical hats, or non la, have been featured as one of the impressive traditional costumes around the globe by British travel guidebook Rough Guides. According to the magazine, Vietnam is home to an extraordinary wealth of traditional clothing, with the most elaborate outfits…
The ancient city of Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam was placed in the Top City category in the Wanderlust Travel Awards 2015, the city’s information and sport centre revealed on February 4. The tourism hub in the central region of…
The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre undertook an US-funded project worth 700,000 USD (14.7 billion VND) to restore the facade of the Trieu To Temple in the ancient imperial citadel of Hue in central Thua Thien-Hue province on February 6. The centre also celebrated the…
The newly inaugurated four-star Saigon-Ban Gioc Resort in the northern upland province of Cao Bang boasts fine accommodations and a magnificent natural landscape. First four-star hotel in Ban Gioc Waterfall area Saigon-Ban Gioc Resort by Ban Gioc Waterfall, which is one of the most…
Many foreign youths partook in a charity Tet (Lunar New Year) event at a home for the physically-challenged in Hanoi this weekend. The foreigners, of different nationalities, enjoyed themselves at a program called “Canh Buom Mua Xuan” (Spring Butterflies,) which took place at Vi…
