An annual festival that features the cultural colours of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups through their New Year celebrations will take place at the Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Hanoi from February 15-17.
The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau plans to welcome 13.5 million tourists including 495,000 foreigners, and earn nearly VND3.3 trillion from tourism services in 2014.
Ha Long Bay has been cited as a vision of astonishing beauty and one of the top ten Valentine’s Day getaways in the world by US-based National Geographic magazine.
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong’s Da Lat city, which is famous for its charming and romantic landscapes and architecture, and lovers’ first choice on Valentine’s Day, has planned various festivals to welcome the couples on February 14.
About 320,000 tourist arrivals visited destinations in the northern province of Quang Ninh during the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2014 (from December 30 to January 7 on the lunar calendar), a 15 percent rise over a year earlier.
A 13-root banyan in Trai 1 village, Ngo Quyen district, the northern port city of Hai Phong, has been recognised as a national heritage tree.
Thousands of domestic and foreign tourists and Buddhist dignitaries flocked to the Yen Tu Pagoda in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh to join the Spring Festival, which officially opened on February 9, the tenth day of the first lunar month.
On the 8th day of the first lunar month, people flocked to a unique market in Vu Ban district in the northern province of Nam Dinh province to wish for a prosperous and lucky new year.
The Tran Temple Festival in Tien Duc commune, Hung Ha district, the northern province of Thai Binh, has been recognised as a piece of national intangible cultural heritage.
Hang Trong and Dong Ho folk painting styles, which are being introduced at the Heritage House at 87 Ma May street in Hanoi ancient quarter during Tet, have attracted a lot of domestic and foreign tourists.
The number of foreign tourist arrivals to the central city of Da Nang hit 58,525 over the recent Tet festival, a 23.7 percent increase compared with the same period last year , local media reported.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Spring Flower Festival 2014 attracted over 1 million visitors from January 25 to February 5, a local newspaper reports.