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Bach Ma – Centre of Flora Diversity in Vietnam

Bach Ma – Centre of Flora Diversity in Vietnam

Opening your tourist map, you can easily find the position of Vietnam’s center of flora diversity – Bach Ma National Park. It is located in central Vietnam, in Thua Thien Hue province, around 700 km south of the country’s capital Hanoi and 1,000 km north of Ho Chi Minh City.  The park covers an area of [...]

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A Day On Salangane Island

A Day On Salangane Island

Nha Trang is a tourist hotspot but sometimes people overlook one of its treasures – the kingdom of salangane. As Salangane Island is far from the mainland, tours need to depart very early in the day and thus we woke up bright and early to be at Cau Da Wharf at 6:30 a.m. for our [...]

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Lam Kinh Historical Vestige

Lam Kinh Historical Vestige

Lam Kinh locates at Xuan Lam (Xuân Lam) commune, Tho Xuan (Thọ Xuân) suburban district. It is 50 km far from Thanh Hoa (Thanh Hóa) city towards the Northwest. This is a historical place-name ranked National historical monument in 1962 by Ministry of Culture and Information.

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Reunification Palace – Ho Chi Minh City

Reunification Palace – Ho Chi Minh City

Location: Thong Nhat Conference Hall is located on No.106 Nguyen Du Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Characteristic: Thong Nhat Conference Hall, also called Reunification Hall or Presidential Palace, was built in 1865 on the grounds of Norodom Palace as a residence for the French Governor General of Cochinchina. Reunification Palace, also called Independence Palace [...]

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Cai Rang Floating Market

Cai Rang Floating Market

Together with Cai Be and Phung Hiep, Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City is one of the three biggest in the Mekong Delta. The shops and stalls at the market are boats of different sizes.

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Cassia Fistula Resort

Cassia Fistula Resort

Cassia Fistula Resort is really a helpful playground for weekends with lyrical landscapes, which make tourists feel like they can go back to their childhood. Cassia Fistula Resort is located in Phước Khánh commune, Nhơn Trạch town, Đồng Nai province, at a distance of 25 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City. It is established in [...]

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Ha Noi To Hold Flower Festival 2012

Ha Noi To Hold Flower Festival 2012

Hà Nội will organize a flower festival around Hoàn Kiếm Lake from December 30, 2011 to January 2, 2012. According to the city’s plan, artistic programs will be held for suburban people, especially in remote and disadvantaged areas, and relics, opened for visitors.

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Voi Phuc – The Western “Guardian Temple” Of Ancient Thang Long

Voi Phuc – The Western “Guardian Temple” Of Ancient Thang Long

Formerly, there were four important temples guarding the four entrances to Thăng Long in four directions. Among them, Voi Phục (Kneeling Elephant) Temple was the western “guardian temple” of ancient Thăng Long. The temple was built on a high mound south of Thủ Lệ Zoo in what is now known as Ngọc Khánh Ward, Ba [...]

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Writing On The Blue Sky

Writing On The Blue Sky

To the freshly-arrived tourists in Hà Nội, the guide will most certainly show the temple named the Jade Mountain (Ngọc Sơn) built on an islet in the Lake of the Restored Sword (Hồ Hoàn Kiếm) an expanse of green water with a border of lawns, flower-beds and age-old trees – the jewel of the capital [...]

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