September 9, 2011
Soothsaying guide presents the past and foretells the future Tran Thi Dieu, 78, entertains a foreign tourist thanks to her fluent English and fortune-telling skills. Thuy Thanh Commune boasts an impressive tile-roofed bridge that is such an integral and central part of it that the village itself is now called the Thanh Toan Tile [...]
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July 30, 2011
Chong Beach, one of the white-sand, pristine beaches on Cu Lao Cham Island Blue. A never-ending expanse of intense blue as the sky and the sea met and merged into each other. For about 15 kilometers – that we covered in 20 minutes by a speed boat from the Cua Dai Quay – this [...]
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July 3, 2011
Waving the Vietnamese flag on the top of Indochina’s tallest peak. Since my student days, I’d cherished a dream of climbing the 3,143 meters Mount Fansipan in Lao Cai in Vietnam’s far northwest. Yet it took me several years to muster the courage and build up the confidence I would need to tackle Indochina’s tallest [...]
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December 12, 2010
Vietnamese catfish producers and European importers are demanding the World Wildlife Fund re-evaluate its red-listing of the hugely popular export item A worker catches tra fish at a fish farm in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam Local catfish producers and government officials are calling a recent analysis of Vietnam’s most popular farmed fish “incorrect” [...]
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December 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Beyond the flower gardens, French-style villas, and verdant terraced fields of Dalat, Lang Biang mountain offers even more breathtaking scenery. Visiting Dalat in wintertime I had been expecting chilly and misty weather. But I’m lucky to wake up on a bright morning with honey-coloured sunshine and a blue clear sky. It’s the perfect [...]
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November 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – It’s a nice day for tourist guide Nguyen Manh Cuong and his 11-strong group of visitors when they travelled Ha Long Bay by chartered helicopter. Winging it: Passengers take a trip to Ha Long Bay on a Russian-made MI-17 helicopter.Cuong, who works for a Ha Noi-based Luxury travel company, has accompanied tourists on [...]
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November 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A group of students surround a stone object symbolising linga and yoni at the exhibition hall of Cham Museum. They listen attentively to the guide. Educational games: Young people take part in sex education-themed games at My Khe Beach.“Linga and yoni always go together,” the guide explains, “The linga is often stylised into [...]
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November 11, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Photo tours demand expertise, flexibility, understanding and patience only a fellow enthusiast like Nguyen Huy Son can offer. It can be, and is, called many things – photo travel, photo fieldtrips, guided photography tour, specialized travel and photo workshops. But it is basically a journey of discovering a nation through your own lens [...]
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November 9, 2009
A photo tour in the Mekong Delta. Photo tours demand expertise, flexibility, understanding and patience only a fellow enthusiast like Nguyen Huy Son can offer. It can be, and is, called many things – photo travel, photo fieldtrips, guided photography tour, specialized travel and photo workshops. But it is basically a journey of discovering a [...]
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October 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A veteran tour guide in HCM City takes a glance at his 21 years in the profession Tri Dung (L) and one of this VIP tourists.During the first two months of my new job, I acquainted myself with everything in the new environment. At that time, there were no schools designed for the [...]
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