Travel

The spring light becomes the Thai people, the ethnic minority who live in Nghe An province.

Vietnam celebrates more than 9,000 local and national festivals and January is often heated by these events.

Picturesque Nha Trang, in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, welcomed around 100,000 visitors during this Tet holiday.

In Hoi An, spring is announcing itself, in all its living pomp and majesty.

Bai Dinh pagoda, known for holding the most nation-wide records in Vietnam, began its festival on February 8.

The Yasaka Saigon Nha Trang Hotel on Feb. 5 divided its 36-metre banh tet (cylindric glutinous rice cake) for sale for the charity purpose.

There is nobody old enough to say for sure exactly how long a certain peach tree has been growing in Nhat Tan Village.

Da Lat City in the central highlands has had unusually cold weather all year, but this is very favourable for the flowers.

Miet Hau Giang is the old name of the land from the left bank of the Mekong River tothe southern tip of Ca Mau province.

Lately a lot of younger Hanoians have been visiting Nhat Tan Flower Village to see the flowers in all their vibrant colour.

‘Night in an Ancient Town’ is a unique event that draws people from all over the world to Hoi An.

Le Tich Dien or Ploughing Ceremonial Festival was a traditional farming practice that has greatly impacted on agricultural production in Vietnam.

With rapid economic changes in recent decades, has the Vietnamese New Year been distorted by commercialism? Jennifer Fossenbell finds the answer.

More and more foreigners have come to live, work, or study in Vietnam, whose traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival is considered a special cultural feature.

An abundance of colourful flowers, here to welcome the new year, could be seen in the streets of Danang.

Vietnamese people usually ring on Tet by making various kinds of cakes, some of which they then wrap in colorful paper and offer as a worship to their ancestors.

Giving money with desires that better things will happen in future has become an indispensable custom of the Vietnamese during the Tet festival.

An Truyen village, also known as Chuon, in central Vietnam, has been famous for Tet cakes since the reign of King Bao Dai.

There is a display of 12 trees that have been specially sculpted on Nguyen Dinh Chieu street, in Hue.