Nam cake (steamed shrimp rice cake) is made of rice flour, shrimp, wrapped in phrynium leaves and served with fish sauce. The cooking procedure seems simple but actually requires a great deal of time and effort from the cake maker from choosing the shrimp to preparing the fish sauce.
A traditional Mid-Autumn Festival for Vietnamese people should have lanterns, mooncakes and lion dances. If lanterns make children happy and mooncakes are favored by both children and adults, lion dances excite all. In the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year, workshops making fabric lions turn busy due to an influx of orders.
The earthen-wall house is typical of ethnic groups in the mountainous province of Ha Giang, including the Pu Peo. The Pu Peo believe that the success or failure of a family depends greatly on the land and the house they occupy.
When I finished my maiden trip to Con Dao five years ago, I dreamt of having an opportunity to return to this beautiful island, and my dream came true last weekend.
Bac Son Valley is a place owned beautiful scenery belonging to Bac Son, Lang Son province. Recently, beautiful rice field in harvest of Bac Son has been introduced by famous website specializing tourism- Whenonearth with lots of praises, admirations with the beauty of this landscape.
Residents of Hue's Thuy Thanh Village are taking advantage of the burgeoning tourism industry to improve their lives.
With its romantic mysterious beauty, Dray Nur Waterfall in Dak Lak Province is closely associated with many legends of the Central Highlands. The waterfall has become a popular tourist destination.
Hue is famous for its royal relics and also for its romantic scenery. The Huong (Perfume) river and Ngu mountain typify Hue’s romanticism.
Located nearly the Binh Ba lobster island, Binh Hung is known as a green island of the city of Cam Ranh, Khanh Hoa with wild and glamorous beauty.
The Pu Peo is one of Viet Nam’s 54 ethnic groups living in the northern mountain province of Ha Giang.
It is impossible to leave footprints on sand dunes, as the wind quickly blows them away. Standing atop the Nam Cuong sand dunes, I felt the wind blow my worries away just as easily.
Hiu hiu, Johns’ groove-toed frog or Johns’ frog in English, is a rare frog species in Viet Nam which can be found at streams in mountainous areas in the northwestern region.