Around 35km from Tuy Hoa city in the central province of Phu Yen is Mang Lang, one of the oldest churches in Vietnam, which is also home to the first book written in Vietnam’s modern Romanized script – quoc ngu. Mang Lang church was built in 1892 and covers 5,000 square metres. An example of [...]

A four-day International Tourism Festival will take place at Bao Son Paradise Park, Ha Noi, from Saturday to mark the city’s millennium anniversary. It will feature a wide range of cultural and culinary activities among 400 booths, of them 35 for tourism outlets in five continents. More than 180 booths are for tourism businesses in [...]

Every march, when the climate is dry and trees lack water, Lo Lo ethnic people in Meo Vac, Ha Giang province rely on a rain praying festival. With typical rituals, the festival, handed down from generation to generation, is also an opportunity to meet one another. The rain praying festival is often held on lunar [...]

Ha Giang Province’s terraced rice fields are invaluable sources of food and priceless natural heritage sites. Ha Giang Province in the mountainous far north is home to 23 ethnic minorities brought together by hard work and natural beauty. Bui Quynh Hoa reports. The sounds of pan-flutes and of Mong children resound across the northern province [...]

Tay Bac, the mountainous region in the northwest of Vietnam, is famous for beautiful terraced fields, colorful love markets, magnificent mountains and valleys. The terrain is fascinating for tourists who can discover many riddles of nature and indigenous cultures. The spectacular hillside-hugging road to the northern province of Ha Giang has a few hair-raising turns [...]

Traveling to Quan Son Lake in My Duc, Hanoi, tourists will be impressed with scenery of wild nature of the lotus lake with the mountains mirroring on the water. The lake, about 50 kilometers southeast of Hanoi, consists of nearly 100 limestone mountains with diverse plants and historical and cultural sites. It looks like miniature [...]