La Rivière des Parfums a deux sources. Celle de gauche jaillit de la Chaine Annamitique prend la direction Nord-Ouest, descend par 55 cascades grandioses pour se rendre a la “croisée des 3 chemins” de Bang Lang, la source de droite, plus proche descesnd 14 cascades dangereuses franchit l’embarcadère de Do Tuan pour rejoindre celle de [...]

Our bus arrived only 2 hours late. I managed to figure that we’d taken a fake Sinh Cafe bus, even though I’d followed the LP directions for how to get to the real one when we’d booked our tickets. Fake company equals not on time. I, fortunately, had managed to sleep; Tom and Edward had [...]

We haven’t had a decent internet connection in forever. I’ll try to get a little caught up… Hue In Hue we visited the Hue Imperial Palace, which was home to emperor’s from about 1800-1945. It’s like a city inside of a city…it has a huge wall around the entire area, which I seem to remember [...]

German restorers are using traditional Vietnamese methods to restore the facade of the Imperial Palace in Hue. Restoration work is currently being carried out on Buu Thanh Gate and screens around King Tu Duc’s tomb. The Germany foreign ministry has commissioned experts from the German Conservation, Restoration and Education Project (GCREP) to renovate six murals [...]

Local food and bonsai will be showcased at the Hue Handicrafts Festival in April as the former royal capital central city strives to consolidate its status as Viet Nam’s cultural and festival city. Traditional art troupes from around the country will perform various cultural and community programmes at the Vietnamese Cuisine in Hue Style. The emphasis at [...]

The number of both domestic and foreign holidaymakers during the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival this year increased sharply. Vietravel said visitors booking domestic and outbound tours during Tet increased 40% over last year. Notably, its office on 190 Pasteur, in HCMC welcomed a record 2,300 people on the second day of Tet. The nation’s [...]

Sat Jan 22, 2011 very early On a tour bus in Hue right now for a DMZ tour. Margot and I arrived in Hue last night after a 3 hr bus ride. It was nice to see some of the country side. It’s very wet, misty, rainy – like there has been a permanent gray [...]

Thua Thien –Hue Province is calling investment into the tourism sector, seeking investors for projects of hotels and resorts outside Hue City because inner-city areas have been crowded with around 12,000 hotel rooms, an official said. The province at a tourism promotion forum in HCMC on January 19 recommended some venues such as Lang Co, [...]

A tourism promotion conference for the central province of Thua Thien-Hue in 2011 took place in Ho Chi Minh City on January 19. The conference also announced the National Tourism Year 2012 which will be hosted by the province. It is part of activities to continue promoting images of land, people and tourism products as [...]

Part of travelling is seeing the people and faces that make up a given place. In my short time in this beautiful country, I was fortunate to meet many smiling faces such as the ones pictured here, to feel truly welcomed from south to north. Travelling by bicycle over 500 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh [...]