The sound of engine-powered boats running along the Hau River wakens travelers who are sleeping in the hotels on the banks of the main southern arm of Mekong Delta. It calls them for an early trip to Cai Rang Floating Market – the popular tourist site near Can Tho City. In the early hours, boats [...]

Traveler Hong Quan and his fellows conquered Bo Y boundary point at Bo Y Boarder Gate, Kon Tum Province.

People have a thousand ways to show their love to Hanoi on the city’s great celebration.

Mien, a noodle made from cassava, is one of the most readily found ingredients in Vietnamese cuisine, and is scattered throughout national hallmark dishes such as Mien Xao (a fried dish served with either pork or chicken tripe) and Mien Tron (a spicy number incorporating beef, pawpaw, vinegar, sugar, salt and chili). But Mien Nau, [...]

Vendors slung baskets are packed with the green young rice flakes which send forth the ubiquitous sweet flavours that lure in even the most casual onlooker.

Traditional foods, culture and customs will be highlighted at the Ha Thanh Food Festival due to be held from October 6 to 11 in Hanoi. “This will be a special opportunity for visitors to discover the unique food culture of the North, Central and South of Vietnam, especially the specialties of the Hanoi people,” said [...]

A simple fish recipe, created a century ago, is drawing people from all over the world to the Hanoi family home of the creator of the dish. Now a restaurant, Cha Ca La Vong (La Vong grilled fish) is run by the descendants of the dish’s creator. The fish dish and the restaurant are named [...]

It is HCMC or Ho Chi Minh City now, but the Vietnamese still call it Saigon and call themselves Saigonese. Saigon has been one of the places in my must-visit list and it was surprising that not too many people share that sentiment about this country made famous by a war. It took a year [...]

Tourists who want to experience rural life in Vietnam first hand are increasingly turning to homestay holidays. Homestay holidays were not the brainchild of the director of a tourist agency. They came about due to a rising demand from foreign tourists, especially back packers, keen to get a glimpse of reality for Vietnamese ethnic groups.

Vietnam’s Truong Sa Islands (also known as the Spratly Islands) are enjoying a rare level of all-around growth and development. Civilians and soldiers on the islands have been working side by side, not only to build the islands’ communities, but to safeguard the nation as well.