Two exhibitions on souvenirs, paintings and statues are on at two ancient houses in the World Heritage-listed town of Hoi An in Quang Nam Province. The ancient house at 46 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street is showcasing 29 works by 21 artists who entered the final round of a contest to create souvenir products for Hoi [...]
Hoi An will host the 9th annual festival to boost cultural exchanges between Vietnam and Japan this month. “Vietnamese – Japanese Culture Exchange Festival” will comprise a haiku poetry competition, music performances, ao dai and kimono shows, folk games from the two countries, a forum titled “The youths and the bad habit of littering,” and [...]
Hoi An Ancient City in the central coastal province of Quang Nam, ranked second among the world’s top 10 leading tourism cities, according to a selection by readers of the UK’s Wanderlust.co.uk/magazine. With a voting percentage of 96%, the town was listed at second place, following Lao’s Luang Prabang with 96.89% votes. Together with Luang [...]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has donated 40,000 tourism maps of Hoi An’s ancient streets and its neighborhoods to the central town, according to UNESCO’s Representative Office in Hanoi. The project was funded by the Robin Taucks & Partners Foundation from the US through UNESCO’s Representative Office in Hanoi. The maps [...]
Geographical position My Son Sanctuary is set in a small valley belonging to Duy Phu Commune, Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province, about 70km southwest of Danang City and 40km from Hoi An City. Of the 225 Cham vestiges that are founded in Vietnam, My Son possesses 71 monuments and 32 epitaphs, the content of [...]
Thu Bon River is located in Duyen Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province. It is one of the nicest waterways in Vietnam. As such, it has been repeatedly portrayed in poetry. The river begins at an altitude of 2,598m in the Ngoc Linh Mountain and then runs across the south-western mountainous area to meet the Tien [...]
Location: Hoi An, a city of Quang Nam province, is nestled along the coast of the East Sea within the region of central Vietnam. Hoi An was primitively acknowledged as a harbor town of the Champa community along the Thu Bon river that was soon considered as an important trading zone in the 16th and [...]
Located along the Thu Bon River, the ancient town of Hoi An in Quang Nam province is an ideal destination for both domestic and foreign visitors. In the 17th centuries, the town was famous for an prosperous city port familiar to merchants from Japan, China and Portugal. Hoi An Port was soon a major trade [...]
