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The Tay Ho Weekend Market has been a popular place for locals to hang around, meeting friends and, especially, shopping for good, safe food for their family every Saturday morning.

Mui Dinh (Dinh Cape) is 40km south of Phan Rang City in the central province of Ninh Thuan and 10 km from the popular Ca Na beach.

Many streets in Hanoi have become crowded with young people who come to buy Christmas nicknacks and decorations.

Thanh Ha Village in Quang Nam Province has existed for more than 500 years and well upheld its traditional craft of making ceramics.

Thousands of Khmer ethnic minority people, nuns and monks joined the four-day Khmer Cultural Festival.

If you had enough of history, take a trip through Vietnam’s many cities and taste its unique local street food culture.

The floating market in HCM City, while keeping a vestige of it's past, has been bogged down by modern elements.

Delegates from domestic and foreign travel agents gathered at a seminar in Khanh Hoa to discuss promoting Vietnam sea tourism in Europe.

A culinary festival will be held in Ho Tay Water Park from December 30, 2011 to January 2, 2012 to honour Hanoi’s specialities.

Hanoi will organise a four-day Flower Street Festival to welcome the New Year, starting on December 30, 2011.

Hoi An town in the central province of Quang Nam ranked sixth among the top ten Food & Wine Destinations in Asia.

Ba Den Mountain, located 11 kilometres from the centre of Tay Ninh township, is a magnet for tourists who can either scale the peak or go via cable car.

Fifty-four art troupes representing 54 ethnic minority groups across the country took part in a fashion show of Vietnam’s ethnic costumes.

Some 5.3 million foreign visitors came to the country in the first 11 months of 2011, said the General Statistics Office.

If you want to escape the chaos of the city, Nuoc Mooc stream in the central province of Quang Binh, is an ideal place of natural beauty.

Quat Lam Beach is a magnet for foreign tourists as it is just 100 kilometres from Hanoi.

UNESCO has cast ballots approving Vietnam’s Xoan folk singing as a world intangible cultural heritage that needs urgent protection.

Carrying luggage of up to 40kg on papooses to the peak of 3,143m Fansipan mount is the job of native porters, who assist tourists to conquer the highest mountain in Indochina.

An art performance celebrating Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day was held in Hanoi on November 23.