The campaign to collect votes for Halong Bay to be recognised as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World in November this year is entering the final stages, said an official from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST). At a meeting to discuss the country’s efforts to reach this goal held [...]
The campaign to collect votes for Halong Bay to be recognised as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World in November this year is entering the final stages, said an official from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST). At a meeting to discuss the country’s efforts to reach this goal held [...]
The Sai Gon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) will receive three cruise liners with 3,650 foreign tourists aboard during the traditional Lunar New Year Festival (Tet), which falls on the first week of February. The tourists are scheduled to tour a flower festival and some pagodas in Ho Chi Minh, enjoy specialties in the southwestern region, [...]
The Saigon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) welcomed 300 overseas tourists and crew sailing aboard the cruise linerPrincess Daphne, which docked at Saigon port in Ho Chi Minh Cityon January 15. This is the first second time the Portuguese luxury cruise liner has visited Vietnam. The visitors, mostly from Australia , will explore popular tourism destinations in HCM City and [...]
Description: In welcoming the New Year festival and fulfilling the increasing demands from foreign tourists coming to Vietnam, Vietnamhotels.net has developed a new online portal for booking cruise tours in Vietnam via the internet. With a renewed focus on customer usability, the Cruises section on http://halong-bay-kayaking.com aimed at providing potential clients with the best possible [...]
Nothing is more romantic than cruising Halong Bay in a rustic wooden junk. After several days of being caught in the hustle and bustle of Hanoi, we badly needed to escape the chaos of Vietnam’s second largest city. So we did what most tourists here do — head for Ha Long Bay, 170km east of [...]
Bai Chay is a resort located along the coast of Halong Bay. This is a windward ocean resort which has a year round average temperature of 20oC (68oF). Bai Chay is a low gently sloping range of hills that runs along the sea for more than 2 km. Blended in among the pine trees are [...]
General information: Halong Bay is a natural wonder of the world and one of Vietnam’s five UNESCO World Heritage Sites Total area: 1,553 sq. km Heritage site area: 434 sq. km Total number of islands: 1,969 islands Number of island in heritage zone: 775 islands Listed as world natural heritage year: 1994 and 2000 Province: [...]
Halong Bay has been ranked as one of the 150 most beautiful natural wonders in the world by the French leading e-magazine, L’Internaute. An article portraying Halong Bay – a world natural heritage, was published in September in the Voyager (tourism) column of L’Internaute magazine. The article noted that apart from its thousands of charming [...]
