The Tich Dien (Ploughing Festival), an annual festival held on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year to pray for a year of bumper harvests, opened in the Red River Delta province of Ha Nam on February 22.
The number of foreign tourists visiting the coastal city of Nha Trang for Tet (Lunar New Year) is expected to rise sharply this year, according to the Khanh Hoa Province’s Department of Tourism.
Festivals featuring peach flowers and the culture of the H’mong ethnic group will be held in Meo Vac District, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang from February 21 – 22 (the sixth and seventh days of the first lunar month).
A month-long spring festival will be held at the coastal entertainment and hospitality complex CocoBay in Da Nang from February 12 to March 11, featuring Tet (Lunar New Year) customs, folk games and traditional cuisine.
Fifty-six paintings from the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Viet Nam are being showcased at an exhibition which officially got underway at the Exhibition House, No. 45 Trang Tien Street, Ha Noi, on February 6.
Tuyen Lam Lake tourist site in Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong was officially recognised as a national tourism site, the first national tourism site of its kind in Viet Nam.
The Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2018, the annual biggest and most anticipated event welcoming the lunar New Year in Ho Chi Minh City is expected to open from February 13-19.
Based on its 2017 success, Ho Chi Minh City aims to attract between seven and eight million international visitors and a whopping 29 million domestic visitors in 2018.
More than 1,000 artifacts uncovered during the excavation and restoration of towers in the world heritage site of My Son sanctuary in the central province of
The authority of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue is planning to build a puppet and traditional art theater costing VND6.9 billion this year with an aim to boost the province’s tourism development.
The growing number of international arrivals to Ho Chi Minh City in 2017 showed the encouraging initial results of tourist promotion campaigns and cooperation programmes launched by the city’s authorities.
When it comes to the central province of Quang Nam, the World Heritage-listed town of Hoi An and My Son Sanctuary are always what local and international tourists think of first. But there remains a less-known Thanh Ha pottery village which is located around two kilometers from Hoi An City, but worth a visit for travellers during their trip to the central province.