LIFESTYLE

The Vietnamese Talents Awards 2011 hailed leading scientific and medical achievements in front of a high-ranking audience.

Quang Tri may have a military history but now it is a popular tourists' destination - with Tra Loc Lagoon among its attractions.

A ceremony to honour the most outstanding products of the Vietnamese Talents Awards 2011 will be held in Hanoi on November 20.

Dong Van stone plateau in Ha Giang Province is now very beautiful when buckwheat flowers are flourishing.

Nha Trang is a tourist hotspot but sometimes people overlook one of its treasures - the kingdom of salangane.

The northern province of Thai Nguyen is hosting it's first tea festival, in order to increase the prestige of their products.

Fields in Xin Man District in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang are abloom with the Tam Giac Mach flower.

Coming to the Central Highlands this time of the year, visitors have the chance to see marigolds blossoming across the region.

An Giang is famous nationwide for festivals such as Ba Chua Xu, Chol Chnam Thomay and Dolta.

Dam Da in Lac Thuy District, Hoa Binh Province, is a favourite destination to tourists.

Lying on Luoi Hai Mountain, Choi Waterfall is the diamond of Cu Dong Commune, Thanh Son District, Phu Tho Province.

When touring Cham Islet, you are bewitched by splendid landscapes with wonderful sandy beaches, forested hills and the glorious clear, blue sea.

The sand dunes in Quang Binh often remind people of blazing sun, hot, dry westerly wind from Laos, but they also create wonderful landscapes.

The Asia Book of Records’ general director presented the Asian record certificate to a Vietnamese craftsman for his stone-made dragon statue.

Visitors to Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang provinces will enjoy the colourful costumes of women from the Pa Then ethnic minoirity.

The Co Tu ethnic people of Quang Nam Province are now harvesting their golden rice fields.

The word that most crops up when you ask expats in Vietnam about their level of Vietnamese is “plateaued”.

Dao ethnic girls in the northern province of Lao Cai reveal their true beauty through their attractive traditional costumes.

Taking a tour of the peak of Ba Na Mountain, visitors often follow a designated route that takes in the Linh Ung Ba Na Pagoda.