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Travelling from Son La City to Moc Chau Plateau at this time of year, visitors are amazed by white plum trees in full bloom.

Hue people usually offer hand-made bamboo flowers in their new year prayers for health and happiness.

The famous citadel in the former imperial capital of Hue drew more than 50,000 tourists, including 30,000 foreigners, during the Tet holiday

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue launched a year-long series of activities within the National Tourism Year in the northern central coastal area for 2012.

Despite cold and rainy weather, thousands of people still set out for Vieng Market in Nam Dinh Province, to bring about fortune for the whole year.

The annual New Year boat race festival opened on Ly Son island in the central province of Quang Ngai on January 26.

HCM City has been listed among the world’s top ten cities for street food according to the USA's Food and Wine Magazine.

Pig hunting festival has been a long-running tradition in the northern province of Phu Tho, held every 5th day of the lunar January.

According to local elderly people, Hang Ma Cave took it's name because of the large number of soldiers who died there.

Halong Bay and its incredible formations was virtually unknown to foreigners 40 years ago. It now receives millions of visitors a year.

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

Several places in Vietnam are famous for hosting special once-a-year markets on the occasion of Tet holiday.

Visitors to Sa Pa are enjoying adventure tours in the villages of Ta Giang Phinh in Sa Pa township and Nam Tam in neighbouring Lai Chau Province , where the local people fiercely cling to their traditions.

Tra Vinh has attracted tourists for the ancient beauty of its Khmer pagodas, special festivals, charming scenery, and its well-preserved primitive Ba Dong Beach.

Le Dinh Nghien is the last artist of Hang Trong paintings, which are losing its place on the walls of local people.

The mountains of Sapa are covered with a fog and mystic tranquility which cannot be found anywhere else.

A stone pathway connected to the southern Gate of the Ho Dynasty Citadel in the central province of Thanh Hoa has been unearthed below the existing road surface.

Persimmon fruit farming by the Mong people is adding a dash of colour to the mountain of Phu Pan in Nghe An Province.

Tet is arriving, and the streets of Hanoi are bustling with colours, crowds and and sound.