The water puppetry guild in Dao Thuc Village, 10km from Dong Anh (Ha Noi), is well-known both at home and abroad. Over the years, it has performed in several foreign countries such as China, the Netherlands, Thailand and Japan. The village now has becomes an interesting destination for foreigners to discover the Red River delta’s culture.
The water puppetry guild in Dao Thuc Village, 10km from Dong Anh (Ha Noi), is well-known both at home and abroad. Over the years, it has performed in several foreign…
All preparations have been completed for the fifth coffee festival to be held in downtown Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province, from March 9 to 12, said the organisers.
In a beautiful spring afternoon, 72-year-old Le Van Hiep rows a boat to take me around in a sightseeing tour along the snaking Lo Canh Giang River, known by local people as Co Co (stork’s neck) River.
A new tourism transport route connecting Viet Nam’s central Quang Binh and Laos’ Khammoune and Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom and Sakon Nakhon provinces became operational on February 28.
A new year festival featuring cultural characteristics of Vietnamese ethnic groups will be held at the Culture Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in Ha Noi from February 27-March 1.
Thi Cam villagers in Bac Tu Liem District, Ha Noi eagerly took part in a traditional rice cooking contest held in the courtyard of the village’s communal house on February 26.
Ha Noi welcomed 270,000 domestic tourists and 70,083 foreign tourists during the nine-day lunar New Year holiday (February 15-23), up 8 percent from the same period last year.
Over 15,000 holiday-makers visited the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh during the first five days of the Year of the Goat (February 19-23), up over 10 percent against the same period last year.
Thousands of people in Ha Noi flocked to a festival celebrating the 226th anniversary of the Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da Victory (1789-2015) on February 23 - the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
State President Truong Tan Sang and Deputy Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on February 16 led the celebrations kicking off the annual flower street festival in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietjet Air is running yet another incredible promotion for flights between Viet Nam and the Republic of Korea (RoK), offering tickets at highly discounted prices, with a limited number of free tickets.
Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi held a series of cultural activities to welcome the Lunar New Year and spring festival of ethnic minority groups across the country on February 2.
A seminar on the role of culture in developing tourism was organised in central Phu Yen Province on February 4-5, during which participating researchers agreed that culture is a product to develop tourism and tourism, in turn, is a motivation to preserve culture.
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