HOI AN ON BIKE

Once known as Faifo, Hoi An was one of the orient's major trading ports in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Hoi An City Tours

Take a step back in time on a walking city tour of Hoi An -a well-known ancient town in Vietnam and a UNESCO World heritage site. A private guide leads you through the well-kept historic district of this once-prosperous seaport city.

Nha Trang Boat trip

Overview Transferring to Da Chong Whalf, about 18 km away from the city center for embarking on boat, cruising on Nha Phu bay.

Ha Long bay

Recognized by Unesco as a World Heritage Site since 1994 for it thousands of natural islands, Ha Long Bay is a legendary world, and one of the most magnificent scenic spots in Vietnam as well.

Discover Stunning Terraced fields in Northwest Vietnam

The terraced fields in the mountain district of Mu Cang Chai in Yen Bai, Vietnam are associated with the developmental history of the Mong ethnic minority group.

Poet’s corner

Named after one of the brightest stars of Vietnamese poetry, Nguyen Du is a romantic Hanoi street with a number of street side cafe's, a lakeside view and milky flowers trees.



LookAtVietnam - Named after one of the brightest stars of Vietnamese poetry, Nguyen Du is a romantic Hanoi street with a number of ca phe via he (street side cafés), a lakeside view and hoa sua (milky flowers) trees.


A man of culture

The Vietnamese poet Nguyen Du (1765-1820) was one of Vietnam’s greatest laureates. He successfully married the outstanding traditions of scholarly literature and folklore to create a body of work that still resonates today in Vietnam.

Born into a family of aristocrat scholars and mandarins under during the Le-Trinh Dynasty, Du witnessed the collapse and separation of his family and the deathknell of the feudal regime, a regime that Nguyen Du would not mourn. He considered himself a humanitarian who deeply sympathised with the fates of those less fortunate. As a writer he was a realist and he went on to denounce the inequality and cruelty of the feudal regime in his work.

In 1813, he accompanied an imperial embassy to the Chinese court, and while there he may have found the literary inspiration for his masterpiece, Truyen Kieu (The Story of Kieu), an epic poem which is widely considered to be the most significant work in Vietnamese literature. It also introduced chu Nom (Sino-Vietnamese script) as a genre and consecrated the Vietnamese language as a classical and poetical one of great delicacy and richness.

The street’s history

The 1,060-metre-long street stretches from Pho Hue to Le Duan Street criss- crossing Ba Trieu, Quang Trung, Tran Binh Trong and Yet Kieu streets. In French colonial times the street was divided into three different streets known as Voie 88 (later renamed Rue Riquier), Rue Halais (after a famous French commander) and Rue Dufourcq until 1945 when all three sections were renamed as Nguyen Du street.

The street is most picturesque by Thien Quang Lake (once called Halais Lake). Originally Thien Quang (which means Buddha’s light) was the name of a village located on the lake’s south-east area. There were a number of other villages around the lake (including Lien Thuy village in the northwest, Quang Hoa village in the southwest and Phap Hoa in the South) and three pagodas (Thien Quang, Phap Hoa and Quang Hoa), which still remain standing today on Tran Binh Trong street. The lake is a popular rendezvous for old people doing tai chi or aerobics in the mornings and for young amorous couples in the afternoons.
Street side cafe's and ice cream

Nguyen Du street still retains a sense of elegance and tranquility with ancient villas, newspaper stands and bonsai tree shops. You will also find a string of cafes on the sidewalks by Thien Quang lake. There are no flamboyant umbrellas, no tables spilling out onto the sidewalks, no fancy frappes, just small plastic stools inside and outside Cafe Lung (68 Nguyen Du) and Cafe Milano(84 Nguyen Du).

Further down the road past Quang trung street you will find the famous Café Mai (52 Nguyen Du), one of Hanoi’s most reputable local style coffeehouses.

Snowee Creamery (76 Nguyen Du)

A tasty Swedish ice cream is the perfect antidote to a hot and stuffy summer’s day in Hanoi. Despite being newly opened in Hanoi, Snowee has proved highly popular with a vast range of flavours and toppings as well as drinks on offer.

Restaurants Wild Lotus/ Da Lien restaurant 55A Nguyen Du

This classy restaurant’s Zen-design puts an emphasis on the traditional beauty of Vietnam’s much loved lotus flower. The pure beauty of the lotus graces the walls and ceilings, dry lotuses can be found in ceramic vases and lotus motifs can be found embroidered into curtains and on yellow lamps. But everyone peace and tranquility abound. The menu features sublime renditions of classic Vietnamese cuisine from all regions of the country.

Lau Nguyet (Lau ga ruou nep)

Ruou nep is mildly alcoholic drink made from glutinous rice that has been fermented with the aid of yeast and steamed in a banana leaf, which is also added to chicken hot pot (lau ga) in a restaurant called Lau Nguyet, just where Nguyen Du meets Hang Long street.

Korean Culture Centre 49 Nguyen Du

Established with the purpose of pushing cultural exchange between Vietnam and Korea, the centre hosts photographic and painting exhibition, films, concerts and music programmes, featuring Vietnamese and Korean artists.

French Connection, 74 Nguyen Du

This world famous brand has an outlet facing Thien Quang lake offering the official FCUK fashion-forward clothing range, which is sophisticated and affordable. FCUK has recently expanded its portfolio into exciting new areas including men’s and women’s toiletries, sunglasses and opticals, watches and shoes.

In spite of being present in Vietnam’s fashion market a few years ago, FCUK has proved popular with young Vietnamese women thanks to the basic promise of quality and affordability.

Source: Time-out

How choose the best adventure destinations

The world is big, if you search for unusual travels, you’ll have to search for unusual places…

After the first tutorials on planning an adventure tour and choosing an adventure company, it’s the turn of choosing a destination.

Offroad riding,VietnamOffroad riding, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Vietnam


How to choose the right destination

It’s not easy to choose the right destination. We could talk with our friends, read news papers, internet etc…but generally you’ll find only well known, crowded and “Tourists Shopper” destinations.

Step by step guide to find new destinations quickly

Let me share my experience:

“I live under the Etna in Sicily. When I’ve started my first blog on the Volcano Etna I started to search for new travel info. The results were amazing! I discovered a lot of new places I’ve never heard before.”

So…if I can’t know all the travel destinations in my home country, how can foreign traveler do?
Here 3 simple ways to find new destinations

1. Emotional, getting the right inspiration

Emotional means finding destination while you are not searching for them.

* You can “steal” the ideas of other traveler by following forums or communities
* Take a Globe and choose a random point
* …Or use Random Country
* Go in a travel agency and grab as much as brochures possible. Use them to playing cards
* Sum your date of birth and see what’s the country code result. Mine is 27-April-1983 2+7+4+1+9+8+3=34 Spain
* Subscribe to Google sightseeing
* Be inspired by the blogger
* Subscribe to See before you die place of the day

Place of the day

2. Go Social, do what other people already do

Searching on the web is hardly. There are so much websites to read that it’s very difficult to grab a piece of good information.

You have to register a profile, then deep digger the website and at least read the same info on multiple people’s reviews and stories.

If you trust word of mouth or reviews sharing websites here how to find the right info in the easiest way.

* Ask your friends, family, people you meet in the street and so on…
* Read this list of what’s hot for the next season
* Follow Wikitravel off the beaten paths
* Facebook’s has a good application to see what’s hot among its users
* Travelistic (The Youtube for travel) gives a list of the top destinations
* Browse the popular tags on Flickr to find pictures of places you’ve never heard before

3. How to find and choose scientifically

Here the step by step process

1° Define what’s you traveler your profile

Type of traveler:

* Solo
* Women
* Gay
* Family
* Elderly
* Pet
* Couple
* Honeymoon

Type of activities

* Multi sport
* Adventure
* Trekking
* Mountain Bike
* Cycling

Type of destination

* Mountain
* City
* Beach
* Country
* Sea
* Natural parks

Type of service

* Independent
* Small groups
* Vacation package

2° Mix them all, here some examples…

* Independent adventure travel destination for a couple
* Small groups active trips for elderly
* Family vacation package spots
* Honeymoon adventure travels
* Women only adventure destinations
* And so on…

3° Type a search phrase in Google or other search engines.

That’s it!…Good luck and happy vacations!

Step by step guide to organize your adventure vacations

Last day my friend Gabriele went to Australia for his wedding travel…I told him: “How did you organize your trip?”

He answered: “Sure I’m a travel agent. I know what to do”.

I’ve never been to Australia and I’m not a travel agent, so I’ve decided to do a little search in Google and try to organize it by me…what a confusion!

Trekking Fansipan Mt, Sapa, VietnamTrekking Fansipan Mt, Sapa, Vietnam


Here you are a scheme that can help you in many situations.

You can avoid my mistakes and quickly find what you need to organize your trip.

Trip planning steps index

These are the Steps I follow each time I want to plan a trip.

1. What activities practice?
If you already know what activity to practice, you can skip this step.

If you don’t have a clear idea of what to practice…then answer these questions first:

* What are the risks?
* Do I need a physical training before?
* What is the minimum skill level?
* Where can i practice my activity?
* What’s the best period?

Consider Skiing as an example.

Ski is an intensive sport activity especially for legs. If you plan to do a winter vacation, be sure that your legs are well trained. (So you can prevent leg diseases, muscle problems, etc…)

To help You choose Your activity, here, You can find a list of possible types of adventure tourism activities.

2. Choosing the right destination
Now it’s time to choose the destination. There is not a special way to do this. You can follow friend’s recommendations, advertising, news, your desires and so on…

* Each year the major travel companies release surveys about what’s hot for the next touristic season.
* Here Suman gives a list of possible tips to choose unusual destinations.
* You can also see this pdf report about tips to choose the right adventure travel destination


3. Search for general info
This is the critical point of the planning process. At this point you should know what to do and where to do it.

The first thing that could come up in your mind is to perform a Google search to find more travel info…then good luck!

If you prefer to find unique and clear travel info start a specific search…

Instead of searching for “destination”+Adventures or “destination”+travel etc…search for:

* “Destination”+Tourist board
* “Destination”+wikitravel [Note: Wikitravel is the Wikipedia like travel encyclopedia]
* “Destination”+”Hiking tours” [Or another activity]
* “Destination”+”Adventure travel companies”

At the end of this process You’ll have a general view of what attractions are worth a visit, distances, best period to travel and where find more detailed information.

3.1 Search for destination guides

Be sure to learn at least these simple facts before you land.

* Communications (Internet points, Postal services, Cell phones, Public telephones, Foreign language)
* Transports and transfers (Public transports, Hub points, Freeways, Airports, Railways, Ferries, Buses)
* Documents (Passport and visa, Customs, Baggage)
* Health and Safety
* Converters (Currency, Weight, Length, Temperature, Liquid, Electrical current)

The best way to do this is through a guidebook. The best I can suggest you are:

* The Big Book of Adventure Travel
* The Definitive Guide to Adventure Vacations
* Rough guides to all world destinations

3.2 Search for videos

Video is the fastest way to preview a location. You can watch the other traveler's experiences and see what other think about it. Here there is a comprehensive list of video sharing websites where watch travel videos.


3.3 Search for maps

Maps are a great tool to plan a vacation. You can use them to learn the distances and see the main transfers points. The best way is to use the Google maps. You can perform a search to find custom maps.

You can see the travel itineraries of other people. For example I’ve created a custom maps of the Top 10 adventure travel spots of Italy

Google sightseeing.com has a good list of sights and maps. You can search by category or by keyword.


3.4 Search for weather conditions

Weather is a difficult factor to consider because it’s difficult to find correct forecast for long term periods. So it’s better to search for a climate chart.


3.5 Search for tips, advices and news about your destination

The last (or the first) thing to do is to find real travelers advices. On the net there a lot of trip sharing websites and forums.

Here Guillaume gives a list of the new Travel 2.0 websites where you can find reviews and trip stories

4. Trip planning
You can skip this steps if you decide to book and organized adventure travel package. Here Tim gives some useful tips to travel adventurous on a budget

4.1 How to find cheap flights

There are thousand of flight companies, so it’s very difficult to search for airfares in different websites.

Here Markus provides a list of the best cheap airfares aggregators to save time and money during the search.

4.2 How to buy the right insurance

* The Truth about Travel Insurance
* Travel Insurance is Important!
* Travel safe – some useful tips and advice!

4.3 What to pack: Accessories, gear, digital cameras, etc..

* Make photocopies of important documents (Check, passport, visa, etc…)
* Consider what allowable necessities you can carry-on luggage
* Buy comfortable walking shoes
* Rain Gear
* Photography & Electronics
* Carry with you some medications: Anti-diarrhea medicine, aspirin, extra tampons, travel packages of Kleenex, antibacterial hand cleaning gel
* Bring a long-sleeved shirt or sweater

* Include:
o Shorts/tights
o Quick-drying jerseys
o Drytex socks
o Stiff-soled shoes
o Cycle gloves
o Rainwear

* Traveller’s point offers a list of packing tips and accessories

5. Compare the offers of various travel companies
Here a list of tips to find and choose adventure companies worldwide.

At the end buy your travel package and Enjoy!

Source: tripadventure

Hanoi in the sunset

VietNamNet Bridge The capital city looks very romantic from above.



Lang Ha street.



The West Lake.

Thanh Nien Road.

Long Bien Bridge.

Hanoi flagpole.

Hoan Kiem Lake.

Source: VNE

Ca Mau Cape marks edge of Vietnam

LookAtVietnam - Visiting the Ca Mau Cape, the southernmost point of Vietnam, visitors will see an entangled network of canals and houses on stilts, as well as both a sunrise and sunset across the sea.

Ca Mau Cape is located at Vietnam’s southernmost point, about 120km from Ca Mau city. It takes about 2.5 hours from Ca Mau city to Ca Mau Cape by high-speed boat.


Ca Mau Cape is the only place on the Vietnamese mainland where tourists can see the sun rising in the East Sea and setting in the West Sea. Ca Mau Cape is often described as an arch. Every year, it is consolidated by Mekong river’s alluvium so as to extend into the sea from 80 to 100 meters, with the area estimated at hundreds of hectares.


From Ca Mau Cape, tourists can see the Hon Khoai islands in the sea, about 20km from the mainland, which includes Tuong Islet , Sao Islet (, Kho Islet , Lon Islet , Doi Moi Islet . The biggest and highest islet is Khoai Islet , which is about 4km2 wide and reaches its highest point at 318m high, where the important lighthouse of the East Sea belonging to Thai Lan Bay is situated.


Hon Khoai has many sources of fresh water and often supplies thousands of fishing boats. The specialties of the alluvial grounds of Mui Cape are the blood arca and hair arca. Residents catch arca when the tide is low.


Mui Cape is also considered to be a sacred land by the Vietnamese, all of whom desire to visit once in their lifetime. It has a diversified and plentiful ecosystem of mangrove forests. Coming to the tourist area at Ca Mau Cape, travelers can visit the national coordinate landmark, contemplate the forest and sea, and also go sightseeing in the zone where a forest village during the resistance war has been reconstructed. Visitors also take photographs at the foot of Ca Mau Cape’s symbol.


Ca Mau Cape is over 100km from Ca Mau city, where boats are the major means of transport.

Ca Mau Cape is an arch, with alluvial grounds made by alluvium from rivers. Mam trees are the most popular trees in this area.

Residents’ lives are closely connected with water.

Visitors come to Ca Mau Cape to enjoy the feeling of walking on the country’s tip.


Forests hundreds of kilometers long spread a green overcoat over Ca Mau Cape.

The symbol of Ca Mau.


From Vong Canh tower, visitors can see the last strip of land of Vietnam.

Source: VNE/Ca Mau newspaper


Sofitel Legend Metropole voted as world’s coolest new hotel

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi-based Sofitel Metropole Hotel has made the Cond Nast Traveler Hot List 2010, the publication’s annual list of the “66 coolest new hotels in the world”.



The hotel, over 100 years old, spent over US$20 million in renovations, over the past four years.

Its Le Spa du Metropole, which opened in April, also received recognition as one of the world hottest spas in this year.

The hotel has received numerous other accolades in the past. The Sofitel Metropole was chosen as one of the 500 best hotels in the world by readers of Travel & Leisure and Condé Nast Travel; selected as the best hotel in Ha Noi by Hong Kong’s Destin Asian, Asia Money magazine, and Viet Nam’s VnEconomy; and received an award from the Viet Nam Tourism Association.

Sofitel Metropole Hanoi was also named 2007’s best hotel for businessmen in a capital city, by readers of the Business Traveler Asia Pacific, a leading travel magazine.

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Sapa in new transplanting season

LookAtVietnam - Taking advantage of early rains, Sapa farmers are growing rice seedlings. This is the only rice crop in this area.


The transplanting season is the most beautiful in Sapa, so photographers and tourists have flocked to this mountainous area.











Source: Dan Tri

A good night for the roses


The flower market around Hanoi Hoan Kiem Lake welcomes visitors with freshly-bloomed flowers

Vietnam isn't known for its flower markets, but maybe it should be.

Early each morning, the streets around Hanoi s Hoan Kiem Lake are the site of small, slow flower parades. Vendors circle the lake on bicycles full of roses, lotuses, daisies and many other flowers.

They leave behind their buds sweet scent mixing with the crisp morning air. Their peddling is the only sound breaking the quiet of dawn.

Most of the flowers come from the Quang Ba Flower Market, a nighttime affair that begins before midnight and ends after the sun rises.

We visited around 3 a.m., taking Thanh Nien Road north of downtown to Au Co Street in Tay Ho District.

The flower market welcomed us with freshly-bloomed flowers piled high on the ground, on bikes and in vendor's stalls. The various colors shined under fluorescent lights and the strong aroma of rose, lotus, daisy and orchid all mixed together was nearly intoxicating.

Quang Ba offers flowers from all over the globe: seasonal flowers from Tu Liem District on the outskirts of Hanoi, flowers from the Central Highlands and also imported flowers from Thailand and Europe.

Many of the vendors handling flowers, trimming leaves and cutting stems were husband and wife teams from Tu Liem and other districts outside central Hanoi.

My workday starts at 3 or 4 p.m. when we cut flowers from our fields and prepare for a trip to the night market. We leave for the market at 1a.m., said Nguyen Thi Luong, a 40-year-old woman from Tu Liem who has been selling her homegrown roses and daisies at Quang Ba for 10 years. The work on the flower field can be hard and it depends a lot on the weather. But the flower business is more profitable than growing rice.

Le Thu, a 50-year-old woman from Bac Ninh Province, said she had been selling flowers from her bike for 15 years, all the while renting a small flat in Hanoi with seven other flower sellers. €œIt is hard, but it means everything. I've saved enough for my son to study at Hanoi Medical University.

After strolling the market and talking with sellers for a few hours, the light of the sunrise began to touch upon the rich hues of the buds and blossoms.

Many small flower vendors from the city arrived on bicycles to pick up their daily inventory bound for downtown and Hoan Kiem Lake.

We left the market knowing we would come back soon in hopes of seeing the market glow during the Tet holiday season, when row upon row of peach flowers, bonsai, and cherry blooms will fill Quang Ba.

Reported by Tina Pham

One more zoo in Hanoi

As of April 1, Thien Duong Bao Son park on Lang-Hoa Lac Road will open six new entertainment venues, including a zoo and an oceanic exhibition zone.

The area for butterflies at Thien Duong Bao Son Zoo.

Nguyen Truong Son, chair of Bao Son group, detailed the rare animals at this zoo from Africa, including white lions, white tigers, yellow tigers, hyenas, panthers, rhinos, and zebras. The wildlife rescue centre presented some species of endangered monkeys and birds to the zoo as well.

After being quarantined for infectious disease upon arrival in Vietnam, the animals went to Thien Duong Bao Son Zoo, where they were tested again and vaccinated.

Apart from the zoo, an ocean-life aquarium open this April featuring sharks, rays, dolphins, sea-calves and sea lions. Dolphins and sea-calves will perform in a sea circus.

Almost all the new construction at Thien Duong Bao Son park has been completed. This 20 ha entertainment and tourism park opens with investment capital of $100 million.

Hanoi currently has only one zoo, named Thu Le.

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Phu Quoc Island is a quiet place to get some rest in Vietnam

Mango plantations, sandy beaches - perfect after 10 days of cycling

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam — my outdated Vietnam guidebook devoted a scant two columns on its last page to obscure Phu Quoc Island, but it was enough to assure me that it was the perfect place to put up my feet and do nothing after 10 days of cycling around the country.

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam

Phu Quoc, less than an hour's flight from Ho Chi Minh City - formerly Saigon - is just 15 miles off the coast of Cambodia. A teardrop-shaped island roughly the size of Singapore, it was a surprisingly untrammeled gem that reminded me of Thailand's Phuket and Koh Samui in the 1970s, before they were besieged by development.

Blanketed with the largest remaining swath of tropical rain forest in Vietnam and trimmed in sandy beaches, it is home to only 75,000 people.

A battered taxi picked me up in a blast of tropical heat outside the airport, which was almost in the center of the main city, the tiny fishing village of Duong Dong.

We headed 5 miles north to secluded Ong Lang Beach over a spectacular potholed road. When we bumped through an old mango plantation and arrived at a string of beachside bungalows amid palms and banyan trees, I knew I'd found the epicenter of tropical idleness.

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam


Mango Bay is a laid back eco-resort. My rammed earth bungalow was naturally cool - and rustic but stylish: white cotton, wicker and terra-cotta.

Breakfast was high-octane Vietnamese espresso and baguettes with jam - a legacy of French colonialism - and the open-air restaurant/bar tempted at lunch and dinner with waft scents of sautéed garlic and a blackboard menu promising marinated and grilled black kingfish and green papaya salad with shrimp.

Ong Lang Beach is great for honeymooners and travelers looking for seclusion, but for more action - though not much more - the island's main attraction is Long Beach, 17 uninterrupted miles of white sand.

There is one sizable two-star resort called Saigon Phu Quoc that clearly focuses on the tour bus set, and a chic new five-star resort called La Veranda. Otherwise, a dozen or so signs point down narrow lanes through tropical bush to guesthouses, cottages and bar/cafés.

On the palm-lined beach, a few sunbathers splayed on towels were being attended to by a clan of masseuses who stroll the strand. No touts, no crowds, just beachside cafes where you dine on world-class seafood for $10 a couple. It's something akin to a miracle that one of Asia's most beautiful beaches still exists so untouched within an hour's flight of a metropolis of 7 million.

Source: By Margo Pfeiff, Special to The Chronicle - articles.sfgate.com

Evening sun in northwestern Vietnam

After chilly days, sunlight blazes in the northwestern mountains, providing spectacular scenes. Pham Bang shares.







VietNamNet/VNE

Up to highlands, getting lost in nature

LookAtVietnam - In the summer, going to the highlands must be an ideal option for tourists to getting closer to nature and escape from the hot and muggy of the tropical summer in HCMC. Visiting magnificent waterfalls, poetic vegetable and flower gardens and strolling around endless pine hills will be nice experiences in Dalat, the city in mist and pine trees.


Prenn Waterfall, or so-called Tien Sa Waterfall, about 10 kilometers from Dalat City, is the first destination for everyone touring to Dalat. The fall is about 10 meters high and is surrounded by a primeval forest. Under the fall is a stream flowing along limitless pine tree lines and wild flowers trees. Therefore, after posing photos with the fall, tourists can hire plastic boats to drift along the stream or coaches to tramp around the park.



A view of Prenn Waterfall.

Scattered in the park are ethnic bamboo houses that travelers can stop for some food and drinks or some kinds of souvenirs. There is also a restaurant that serves revelers indigenous specialties made in highlands cuisine.

To get close to the fall, tourists must cross a small bamboo bridge spanning to the stream below or travelers can pay VND25,000 to take a cable car trip to admirethe fall.

In the park, excursionists can also explore Long Mach Lake, Au Co Well, Than Lua Temple. Nearby mountain is nestled Au Lac and Au Co temples where tourists can contemplate old ancient architecture that imitated Hung King Temples complex in Phu Tho Province and can see old artifacts such as musical instruments, weapons, jewelries, labor tools dating back to Hung Kings time.

Taking an elephant trip through pine hills or once try to seat on ostrich and make a round must be amazing experiences at the park. Here, tourists can also have a chance to contemplate of many types of orchid flowers and can purchase them as gifts for friends and relatives.

At night time, tourists can join camp firing. In the flickering fire, tourists can enjoy gongs performances and dances of ethnic peoples such as Chil or K’Ho and Lach, and taste ruou can (wine drunk through a jar via bamboo pipes).

After leaving Prenn Tourist Park, tourists must stop Dalanta Waterfall, Elephant Waterfall or Hang Cop (Tiger Cave) Waterfall to once indulge in nature and forget daily worries and stresses.

VietNamNet/SGT

Summer in Kon Tum

The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum shares borders with Laos and Cambodia. Nguyen Ngoc Vinh traveled to Kon Tum and captured interesting moments there.

VietNamNet Bridge – Kon Tum Province lies in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam and shares borders with Laos and Cambodia. It has an area of 9,934 square km and a population of approximately 330,000. The economy is primarily agricultural.


The name Kontum comes from the name of a village of the Bahnar ethnic group. In the Bahnar language, kon means “village” and tum means “pool.”

Neighboring provinces are Quang Nam to the north, Quang Ngai to the east and Gia Lai to the south. The capital city is Kon Tum.

Ethnic groups in Kon Tum Province include the Viet, Ba Na, Brau, Gie Trieng, Jarai, Ro Mam, and Xo Dang.

Nguyen Ngoc Vinh traveled to Kon Tum and captured interesting moments there.

Kon Tum is the home of Bana and Xedang ethnic groups.

A Bana house on stilts.

Dak Bla River.

Ancient statues at a charnel-house.

The 100-year-old wooden church in Kon Tum.

Bana kids.

A Bana old man knits bamboo.

Source: VNE

 

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