Souvenir–hunters will find rich pickings in Vietnam, whose eye–catching handicrafts and mementos range from colonial currency and stamps to fabrics and basketware crafted by the country’s ethnic minorities, and from limpet–like conical hats to fake US Army–issue Zippo lighters.
The Central Highlands city of Da Lat will be decorated with kaleidoscopic patch work of flowers during the biennial flower festival - a trademark of the city - from December 29 to January 2.
Vietnam is located on the eastern seaboard of the Indochina peninsula, sharing common border with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. To the east and south lies the East Sea. Mountains and hills cover four ...
With around 57,000 travellers pouring into Phu Quoc in the first quarter of this year, Viet Nam’s largest island is fast becoming the gem in the country’s tourism crown.
The 2015 Da Lat Flower Festival will be held from December 30th, 2015 to January 3rd, 2016 in Da Lat City and neighbouring districts in Lam Dong Province.
With its left shoulder braced against the Bac Lieu Canal, Highway 1 heads westwards from Bac Lieu towards the Ca Mau Peninsula, which constitutes not only the end of mainland Vietnam but of Southeast Asia as well.
Under the terms of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Vietnam was split in two along the Seventeenth Parallel, pending elections intended to reunite the country.
Vietnam’s most evocative Cham site, MY SON, lies 40km southwest of Hoi An, in a bowl of lushly wooded hills towered over by the aptly named Cat’s Tooth Mountain. My Son may be no Vietnamese Angkor Wat, but it is now ...
The city of BUON MA THUOT itself has little to offer, its central sprawl of modern buildings being splayed across a grid of characterless streets. With a jeep protruding from its central column, the town’s dramatic Victory Monument on Le Duan is the hub ...
If you’d like to get off the beaten track in Vietnam, this is the place to do it. The bulk of travellers shoot along the coast to the east, and even those who prefer mountains to beaches usually head to ...
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