Travel

The opening ceremony of the National Tourism Year 2018 is scheduled to be held at Sun Carnival Square in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 28.

Da Nang will be “the place to be” for travelers in Vietnam in the upcoming extra-long weekend, according to global online booking platform Agoda.com.

Hanoi has found a place on a TripAdvisor list of the world’s Top 25 destinations, together with Paris, Rome and New York.

The Dao ethnic minority group in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang are busy harvesting their first Shan Tuyet tea crop of the year.

Muong Thanh Safari Land in Nghe An Province is the northern central region’s largest zoo.

An archaeological excavation at the Thang Long imperial city in 2017 has uncovered many traces of former buildings and other artefacts dating from the period of Chinese domination up to the Nguyen Dynasty.

Authorities in the northern coastal province of Quảng Ninh and experts from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Wednesday discussed the promotion of green growth of Hạ Long Bay.

Many people in Hanoi have flocked to the Banh Troi and Banh Chay (floating rice cake and lean cake) stores to celebrate Tet Han Thuc or the Cold Food Festival.

The Hue Monument Conservation Centre will launch a virtual reality tour for visitors to Hue Imperial City on April 27.

Ta Dung Nature Reserve in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong is nicknamed the Central Highland’s Ha Long Bay as it is home to dozens of islands.

Vietnam’s Non Nuoc Cao Bang Geopark in the northern province of Cao Bang has been declared a new member of the UNESCO Global Network of National Geoparks.

Vietnam Airlines has been named among the best carriers in Asia for 2018 by TripAdvisor, the US-based travel planning and booking site.

A high-speed boat, Super Bien Dong, which will ferry passengers to Ly Son Island in Quang Ngai province was launched on April 11, shortening the travel time from the mainland to the island from 75 minutes to 35 minutes.

The central province of Quang Binh has stepped up activities to stimulate tourism demand, aiming to welcome 3.5 million tourists this year.

The island district of Lý Sơn, 30km off the coast of Quảng Ngãi Province, will open a night market for tourists on the island in May.

A new daily tour from Hanoi to the northern province of Phu Tho, the land of the mythical Hung Kings, was recently launched.

Vietnamese photographers Nguyen Huu Thong and Tran Tuan Viet have emerged triumphant at the 15th annual Smithsonian Photo Contest.

The Sanskrit texts inscribed on the relics at My Son Sanctuary, a UNESCO world heritage site in central Vietnam, will be translated into Vietnamese and English with the assistance of Indian experts.

Households in the northern province of Hung Yen are busy harvesting honey.