Travel

Mount Fansipan is only half as tall as Mount Everest. Yet this mountain, perched at the eastern edge of the Himalayan range in Vietnam’s uppermost Lao Cai province, is hardly an easy climb.

The Ba Ria-Vung Tau provincial People’s Committee has received a government certificate recognizing Con Dao Prison as special National Heritage site.

More than 80 percent of foreign tourists to Hanoi said they want to return to the capital city after their first visit, according to a municipal survey.

It is said that Hoi An’s penchant for street food began centuries ago when hawkers and cart-pushers started selling food to the thousands of small traders and waterside merchants who needed light meals.

CNN has judged Vietnam boasts five of the top nine most beautiful paradise resorts in the East Sea.

During spring the flowers and plants of Sapa glisten with dew in the early morning light.

There are a lot of things that can give a city an undeniable character. Cities can take on an energy so idiosyncratic that it is beyond recognition.

Can Tho is the largest city in the Mekong Delta, and as such has long been known as Tay Do, which means Capital of the West.

My Son Community-based Tourism Village in Duy Phu commune, central Quang Nam province, was opened on March 14.

Northern Quang Ninh Province will develop three important heritage sites from next month until 2025.

Stories about a violent past serve as a major source of entertainment on a small island off the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.

A village in Quang Binh Province has thousands of Lộc Vừng Barringtonia acutangula trees worth hundreds of billions of VND.

Visitors to the Dong Van stone plateau in Ha Giang province this time of the year will be enchanted with different kinds of flowers which are in full blossom in the northeastern mountainous region.

As the wind starts to blow in Can Tho City hundreds have started to fly their kites around Hau River Park daily for pleasure.

Two Buddha statues in Vietnam have been recognized as record-setting in size by the Asia Book Of Records.

In the culinary world the term fusion has come to have a less than positive connotation. One such example of this is the Vietnamese banh mi sandwich.

A north Norfolk-born woman is heading off on a solo trip along the Ho Chi Minh trail - on a moped.

During this season Sapa becomes more attractive to visitors for its mystic, cloud-shrouded scenery.

Yen Tu Mountain’s beauty is in the harmony between imposing mounts and ancient pagodas and temples, making tourists relax after trekking sloping roads.