Can Tho’s craftsmen busy for Tet

Craftsmen in Can Tho had been busy making their meticulous handcrafts at a fair to welcome the Tet festival. The “Orchard Colours” trade fair took place in the Mekong Delta from January 22-26. It was a chance to see with thatched houses and all the normal daily activities of life there. Two pavilions in particular were of special interest to visitors. Each one resembles household items, a knitted mat and basket. Visitors could also try out traditional...

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Nha Trang: Beginning to look a lot like Tet

Even though Tet will not be here for another week, every street in Nha Trang is decorated in striking colours. More and more impromptu markets for flowers and ornamental trees are set up along the side of the road. The evenings are just as spectacular, with the streets bedecked in a decorative lights. The atmosphere of Tet has certainly arrived in the beautiful coastal city, which also boasts of its fine beaches. Nha Trang shows its colours this...

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Sapa’s peach tree market flourishes in the cold

People of the picturesque mountain village of Sapa gathered to sell their beautiful and ubiquitous peach blossoms for Tet. The market is set up every year in the northern province of Lao Cai on National Highway No. 70, which runs between the Mong Sen bridge and Sapa. This year’s prolonged cold has meant that many of the trees that produce the tiny and colorful flowers are more expensive. The price for a branch is hovering between VND300,000 and...

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When to travel Sapa, Vietnam

Travelers to Sapa in summer can feel the climate of four seasons in one day. In the morning and afternoon, it is cool like the weather of spring and autumn. At noon, it is as sunny and cloudless as the weather of summer. And it is cold in the evening.With no advance warning of a thunderstorm short and heavy rains may come at noon on any summer day. Subsequently, a rainbow appears, transforming Sapa into a magic land, which for years has been...

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Fun with banh chung at Sea Horse Resort

Hundreds of holidayers in Phan Thiet cheered on their favorite team at a banh chung wrapping contest at a festival at Sea Horse Resort on Tuesday night. The contest to make the square glutinous rice cake filled with green bean paste and pork fat was part of a banh chung festival held by the resort. Twenty three teams, many of them tourists from Russia, Germany, Estonia and Rumania, competed. In 15 minutes, the teams had to wrap all the ingredients of a banh chung in banana leaves and tie it with string under guidance of the resort staff....

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Travel to Vietnam & Discover traditional Tet Holiday

The lunar calendar shows that Tet is coming, and from now until then, all things are Tet. The streets are Tet, the talk is Tet, the thoughts are Tet, the shopping is Tet, it's a Tet world in Vietnam right now and everybody knows it.Tet is the most cherished time of the year in Vietnam. It is when the cities empty out and thousands go back to the countryside where they were born. City dwellers often choose to spend time at home. The streets...

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Travel to Vietnam & Discover traditional Tet Holiday

The lunar calendar shows that Tet is coming, and from now until then, all things are Tet. The streets are Tet, the talk is Tet, the thoughts are Tet, the shopping is Tet, it's a Tet world in Vietnam right now and everybody knows it.Tet is the most cherished time of the year in Vietnam. It is when the cities empty out and thousands go back to the countryside where they were born. City dwellers often choose to spend time at home. The streets...

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Travel firms say regret late Tet holiday announcement

Tour operators in HCMC have said they have missed a great business chance for launching more tours for the Lunar New Year (Tet) as the long holiday schedule was announced a little bit so late. The Government has formally announced that the Tet holiday will last from January 31 to February 7, meaning all civil servants and State workers will have eight days off. That prompts people to rush to buy tours, but many travel firms have closed their...

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Motorcycle travel in Vietnam

A motorcycle represents freedom: the freedom of the open road, the freedom of speed, the freedom to go. Bikers are cowboys reinvented. They aren't content to go the way of the package tourist. They see things for themselves and they form their own judgments. It's an attitude as much as a mode of travel. Few people stop to consider the advantages of motorcycle travel in foreign countries. In most places you can rent a scooter without a motorcycle...

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Vietnam’s tourism industry growing, but slowly

Though obtaining a satisfactory growth rate in 2010 with five million foreign tourists, experts say there are still a lot of things that need to be done to develop tourism industry. Vietnam slow in develop tourism products Like other countries in Asia Pacific that benefited from the higher number of inner-bloc tourists in 2010, Vietnam’s tourism industry had a prosperous...

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Discovering Vietnam by train

Vietnam is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Asia. It offers so much to do in so little time. Besides being steeped in rich history and culture, Vietnam is also beautiful and relaxing all over the country. Of course, there is a decision to be made about how to get from land to land in this gorgeous area. The best suggestion would be to travel Vietnam by train. There is no other way to see so much and relax in amazing comfort at the...

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Tourism industry urged to keep pushing

p.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; } More than five million international tourists travelled to Viet Nam in 2010 – the highest number for 20 years. Last year, the domestic tourism industry also posted significant growth of 35 per cent. Viet Nam News spoke to Vu The Binh, chairman of the Viet Nam Travel Association and former head of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism's Travel Department,...

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Khanh Hoa welcomes great number of tourists

Photo: VOV Over 25,000 tourists flocked to the central province of Khanh Hoa during the first three days of 2011, up more than 20 percent over the same period last year. According to the provincial Culture, Sports and Tourism Department report, of the total, foreign visitors rose by almost 80 percent. The...

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On golden pond

A group of my friends from the US recently travelled to the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, home to Tra Vinh's legendary Ba Om Pond. While there, they visited Ang Pagoda which people claim is the best vantage point from which to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the pond. Tree-lined drive: The Ba Om Pond complex in the Mekong...

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Vietnam welcomes first foreign visitors for 2011

Hundreds of visitors from many countries were warmly welcomed at the Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat International Airports in the morning of January 1 2011. From the early morning, officials of the HCM City Department of Tourism were at the Tan Son Nhat Airport to welcome 160 visitors from Taiwan on a flight of Vietnam Airlines, who arrived at the airport at 9.30am. Not so long after that, 300 visitors from the US, Britain, France and the Netherlands...

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