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A master plan for developing the Dong Van Global Geology Park in northern mountainous province of Ha Giang by 2020 has been announced.

Barbequed Cau Mong veal from Dien Ban District in Quang Nam Province has been recognised by the Vietnam Records Organisation as a national specialty.

The 2013 Sapa in the Cloud Festival will take place from April 26 to May 5, said the district People’s Committee.

A sea tourism festival will be held in Do Son District of the northern port city of Haiphong from April 28 to May 6.

The People's Committee of the central province of Quang Binh has approved an experimental adventure tour to Son Doong Cave suggested by Howard Limbert, expert of the British Cave Research Association.

Mai Chau, a small town in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh, was named one of the top ten "fresh" Asian destinations by hotel booking site Agoda.com.

The island district of Van Don in northern province of Quang Ninh has set its sights on attracting 620,000 tourists to the area this year and become a hub for eco-sea tourism in the north.

With both beaches and mountains, the country’s biggest Buddha statue and the Phat Diem Cathedral -- immortalized by Graham Green in The Quiet American -- Ninh Binh Province has become a staple on the Vietnam tourist trail.

The home of Vietnamese water puppetry, Kim Megson makes the short trip to Chua Thay Pagoda, a 900-year-old shrine to the monk Tu Dao Hanh.

Phung Island is the long strip of green in the Tien River below the arch of Rach Mieu Bridge. Like most of Ben Tre Province, it’s dotted with houses and covered with coconut trees.

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.