Travel

The chill in the Central Highland city of Da Lat will be warmed by flowers and festivities this New Year holiday, during the Da Lat Culture Tourism Week 2013.

The terraced fieds of Sa Pa in Vietnam's northern Lao Cai province have entered in the Top 11 most beautiful terraces in the world, according to the Touropia.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in conjunction with the municipal Tourism Association and Vietnam Airlines, held a ceremony on December 24 to welcome the 4 millionth foreign visitor, a Japanese, to the city.

Many bird lovers in the foggy town of Sapa spend tens of millions of VND on luxury bird cages.

The Asian Record Organization has recognized Hoi An’s signature Cao Lau specialty as one of the 10 dishes meeting the criteria of “Asian cuisine value”.

Flower villages in the Central Highland resort city of Da Lat are putting the finishing touches to the fifth Da Lat Flower Festival due to take place in a couple of days.

Hanoi welcomed its 2.5 millionth foreign tourist on December 20, fulfilling its set target two years ahead of schedule.

At the end of November, Nguyen Viet Hai and his friends drove 200km from Hanoi to Moc Chau District in the northern province of Son La to hike through the white blumea flower fields.

In a bid to preserve the city's history, owners of Western-style villas built in Hanoi before 1954 are no longer allowed to transfer ownership or remodel these homes.

Over the past four years, Vietnamese and Japanese experts have joined efforts to preserve the UNESCO-recognised Thang Long-Hanoi Citadel while promoting its image to the world under a project financed by the Japanese Fund-in-Trust.

For almost two years, local residents in Hue have complained about the night market set up on the city's foot street that runs along the poetic Huong, or Perfume River.

More than 1,500 archaeological objects have been discovered and excavated My Son Sanctuary during a 10-year restoration project.

The Asian Records Organisation (ARO) has included ten more Vietnamese culinary specialties in its latest Asian Records listings.

Hanoi authorities has announced that they will spend VND18.5 billion to upgrade the One-Pillar Pagoda.

The Hue Relic Conservation Centre in collaboration with the local tourism and hotel associations will launch a tourism promotion week from December 24-30, to lure more tourists during the festival season at the end of the year.

Thousands of people flocked to a field in Hanoi to see and pay their respects to a recently discovered tomb which may be from the Le Dynasty.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has signed a decision recognizing 14 sites as special national relics.

Vietnam’s national currency, Vietnamese dong, features special cultural destinations in the country, including Hoi An bridge pagoda, the Constellation of Literature pavilion in Hanoi, Ha Long Bay and the cottage of President Ho Chi Minh in central Nghe An province.

During his trans-Viet tour in 1992, talented French journalist and director Raymond Depardon captured the essence of Vietnamese people and their environment in a series of evocative images.