With 1,350 craft villages, including over 300 traditional handicraft villages, Hanoi capital city has abundant resources for the development of cultural industries throughout its metropolitan area.
According to renowned Canadian travel website The Travel, Ho Chi Minh City is among the 10 best destinations in Asia with many great places to visit. The best time to enjoy the good weather in the city is from March to May.
The Ha Long Carnival 2023 festival, themed “Ha Long Dance – Harmony of Five Continents”, will open with a low-altitude fireworks display at 8pm on Vo Nguyen Giap street, the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 1.
Vietnam witnessed an significant increase in the number of international tourist arrivals by sea in the first quarter of 2023, showing that cruise tourism has great potential for further development in the Southeast Asian nation.
Brekke Fletcher, a writer for the world's leading travel magazine Lonely Planet, has chosen Vietnam as a culinary destination to explore for the Elsewhere section.
New tourist destinations, tourism products and services as well as promotion programmes of Ho Chi Minh City were introduced at the 19th HCM City Tourism Festival that concluded on April 9.
Cao Bang province holds major tourism potential, with many famous sites, scenic spots, and landscapes attracting domestic and foreign tourists, such as the Pac Bo historical relic site, Ban Gioc Waterfall, Nguom Ngao Cave, Thang Hen Lake, Mat Than Mountain, Nam Tra Waterfall, and Truc Lam Pagoda.
Some 110 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City in the southern province of Tay Ninh stands Ba Den Mountain. This is the highest mountain in the south, at 986 metres above sea level, and is located in the Ba Den historical, cultural, scenic and tourist relic site, which has been recognised as a national tourist area by the government.
Brekke Fletcher, a writer for the world's leading travel magazine Lonely Planet, has chosen Vietnam as a culinary destination to explore for the Elsewhere section.
High clouds and layers of fog create a vibrant orange sunrise over Long Coc tea hill in the northern midland province of Phu Tho, which has been a popular destination for photography aficionados.