Thirty-two students from 14 countries throughout the world, including Vietnam, participated in the English Summer Camp in the Japanese central prefecture of Shiga from August 21- 27. Organised by the Kumon Education Institute since 2001, the annual event aims to help local primary pupils improve their English skills and understanding of world cultures, including Vietnamese [...]
The “Yosakoi – 1,000 years of Hanoi” team of Vietnam participated in the 2011 Harajuku Omotesando Super Yosakoi Festival held in Tokyo on August 27-28. In the framework of the festival, the team performed on three major stages and took part in stress processions. Through jubilant dances, the Vietnamese young dancers won the hearts [...]
The Conference on Tourism Property Management is set to open at Legend Saigon Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City on September 15, 2010. Some 100 representatives of companies managing hotels, resorts and serviced apartments as well as consulting and design companies, tax and law consultants are expected to attend the event, according to the organizing board. [...]
Ta Cu is a well-known landscape in Binh Thuan province not only because it features tropical rainforest ecology with a cool climate, fresh air, rich flora and fauna from which a lot of medicinal herbs and animals as well as rare species recorded in the World Red Book, but also because it has Linh Son [...]
Opening your tourist map, you can easily find the position of Vietnam’s center of flora diversity – Bach Ma National Park. It is located in central Vietnam, in Thua Thien Hue province, around 700 km south of the country’s capital Hanoi and 1,000 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. The park covers an area [...]
A pristine hick area with pure ecological environment created partly by the green of coconut tree lines and large fruits gardens has made Ben Tre a nation’s precious green ecological complex in southern Vietnam. “Who’s standing there looking like a coconut shadow, with long hair gone in the wind? .. That is Ben Tre’s girl…” [...]
Saigon has so many dishes made of mollusk and crustacean species that people call them simply oc (snail). And now oc is part of Saigonese life. It is easy to find snail eateries as they are everywhere in Saigon, from downtown to outlying areas, from big restaurants in main streets to small bistros off alleys [...]
My Tho is known for its huge district of exotic fruits and offers many best kinds of fruits in the Mekong Delta. Let’s once come to My Tho fruit market and you will realize… The Mekong River Delta is the richest and most fertile area in Vietnam; the river itself has its source as far [...]
Travelling almost 6km to the west of Chau Doc Town, An Giang Province, you will have a chance to view the 230m-high Sam Mountain with beautiful landscapes and many historic remains. Sam Mountain is the highest mountain in the Mekong Delta. On the way there, you can enjoy the sights of the two rice fields [...]
About 4km southeast of Cua Lo Beach is Song Ngu Island, which looks like a huge fish. The island is described as “two fish swim on the wave when seen from a far distance”. In the past, King Le Thanh Tong often anchored his boat by the island to view the beauty of the island, [...]
