The New7Wonders will choose the 21 natural wonders for the next phase of the vote for new seven world natural wonders on July 21. Vietnamese agencies are taking action to get Ha Long Bay on the list.
Halong Bay in VietnamThe Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Tran Nhat Hoang, who oversees the ministry’s campaign of calling for votes for Ha Long Bay, said that the bay has been in the lead in the group of sea-related landscapes in the New7Wonders poll, followed by Cox’s Bazaar beach of Bangladesh.
High-flying trikes could soon be a common sight around Nha Trang on the central coast.
Zooming over Nha Trang Bay VietnamMai Linh Group has been test-flying motorized hang gliders at Do Island in Nha Trang Bay and will make them available to the public soon. The trikes, as they are commonly known, can reach an altitude of 3,000 meters but will be restricted to 150 meters, according to a regional executive of Ho Chi Minh City-based Mai Linh.
Considered one of the most beautiful places to visit in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan, the Mui Ne Ward of Phan Thiet Town is most famous for its vast sand dunes.
countryside near Ho Chi Minh CitySituated just 10 kilometers from the heart of Phan Thiet, one of the largest sand dunes of Mui Ne stretches over an area of 10-hectares with breathtaking views of the seascapes.
There’s nothing quite like knocking back a few cold ones after a pleasant walk or run through the Vietnamese countryside.
countryside near Ho Chi Minh CityAnd that’s why the Saigon Hash House Harriers have become so popular.
“Hashing,” a weekly jog first begun in 1938 by a group of British officers in Malaysia wanting to run off the weekend’s excesses, began in Ho Chi Minh City in 1990. Originally a men’s activity, hash groups are now mostly co-ed.
Renowned as one of the biggest producers of traditional Vietnamese ceramics in the Mekong Delta, Vinh Long Province boasts more than 1,330 family-run pottery businesses.
A woman creates a piece of pottery in a workshopAround 130 small businesses in Vinh Long specialize in producing artistic ceramics for export with most establishments concentrated in the province’s Mang Thit and Long Ho districts, and Vinh Long Town.
Flying boats fill the sky in Nha Trang
Vietnam Travel in Brief 12 June Visitors to Nha Trang can see the panorama of tourist destinations in the coastal city on flying inflatable boats, the newest kind of entertainment and air travel service in the country. The flying boats are designed in a sportive style and can carry over 400kg each at an average speed of 70km per hour. Each boat will take off with a passenger and a pilot.
Domestic overland tours have seen fees decrease by 15-20 percent, while airway tours have seen fees down by 30 percent.
Sea tours remain the first choice of travellersAnticipating sharp falls in the numbers of travellers in groups and delegations this year as businesses, facing financial difficulties, try to cut expenses, travel firms have shifted to focus on individual and family clients. In order to lure more clients, travel firms have been trying to offer more impressive destinations on their tour itineraries and accept lower profit.
The Mekong Delta’s Tien Giang and An Giang provinces are seeking funds for 13 tourism projects.
Mekong Delta provinces seek capital for 13 tourism projectsThey include Chau Doc Town Entertainment Area, Ky Lan Son Culture and History, Oc Eo History Relic and Tourism, Bung Binh Thien, My Khanh, My Hoa Hung-Con Pho Que Ecological Area, Cam Mountain Ecological Area, Tra Su Ecological Area, and infrastructure for Tourist Area No. 2 and the area of Cam Mountain.
Ho Chi Minh City-based Ben Thanh Tourist tour operator is promoting a 10-day and 9-night tour by overland and air travel to the four Asian countries of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia this summer season.
Tourists visit the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, a popular destination in Bangkok, Thailand.The tour starting in Ho Chi Minh City will include Vinh City in the central of Vietnam, Vientiane of Laos, Bangkok and Pattaya of Thailand and Siem Reap and Phnom Penh of Cambodia.
Ninh Hiep, just 20km from the centre of Ha Noi, is no ordinary village. It resonates with a colourful history woven deep into the fabric of north Vietnamese culture.
The gate of Ninh Hiep villageIn the past, the village was the cradle of culture in Kinh Bac (an old name for the region to the north of Ha Noi). The village houses 23 relics of historical and cultural interest, including communal houses, temples, pagodas, shrines and places of worship. Five of them have been designated national heritage sites by what is now the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.