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Air with oxygen at Yang Bay

February 4, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Air with oxygen at Yang Bay

Yang Bay Tourist Area in Y Bay Tribe, Khanh Vinh District, Khanh Hoa Province, is suggested as an ideal site for tourists to celebrate the Tet holiday . . .  Tourists have fun in a cool stream in Yang Bay Tourism Area in Khanh Hoa Province.To reach the site from Nha Trang City, tourists must pass through Dien Khanh Old Town and 40 kilometers more through... Read more

Domestic travelers to be given preference

February 4, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Domestic travelers to be given preference

LookAtVietnam – The tourism industry has decided to launch a number of promotional programs to attract more domestic travelers in 2010. Tourists visit Bau Truc pottery craft village in Ninh Thuan provinceVu The Binh, director of the travel department under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), said that the Ministry of Industry and Trade... Read more

One decade of tourism

February 1, 2010  . Filed under In depth, Reports

One decade of tourism

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam has not made measurable progress over the last 10 years in conducting tourism promotion campaigns. According to Poll Stoll, General Director of Celadon International in HCM City, some 500 million tourists in the world are “allocentric” (i.e., ones who do not care much about the price). They are well educated, like traveling... Read more

Tourism to hit new heights

January 28, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Tourism to hit new heights

Sa Pa, in Lao Cai Province, is one of the popular destinations to both domestic and international tourists.LookAtVietnam - A nationwide set of standards to rate tourism services is expected to be published in the second quarter of this year.The work was commissioned to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan as part... Read more

Delta delights in Chau Doc

January 25, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Delta delights in Chau Doc

A boat full of pineapples is unloaded onto a house in a floating village near Chau Doc, An Giang Province. An Giang Province’s bustling border town showcases the diversity of the Mekong Delta: Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer and Cham cultures all in one. From the top of Sam Mountain, you can see the whole of Chau... Read more

Delta delights in Chau Doc

January 25, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Delta delights in Chau Doc

LookAtVietnam - An Giang Province’s bustling border town showcases the diversity of the Mekong Delta: Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer and Cham cultures all in one. From the top of Sam Mountain, you can see the whole of Chau Doc Town and Tinh Bien District, and even all the way to the That Son (Seven Mountains) range in the distance.At the summit, marked... Read more

Take the local flavors home

January 16, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Take the local flavors home

A foreign tourist samples local products at a mam tom (shrimp paste) stall. Cooking tours offer visitors a deeper experience with Vietnamese culture. It’s an unusual sight, but it doesn’t raise eyebrows among vendors at Hanoi’s Hang Be Market.Since it has been happening for nearly seven years now,... Read more

Dalat flowering on

January 16, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Dalat flowering on

In 1893, Yersin headed for the unexplored central highlands of Vietnam, where he discovered an evergreen mountain paradise dotted with lakes and waterfalls. The French émigrés living in Vietnam at the turn of the 20th century were desperate to escape the sweltering heat of the lowlands – Bana, Sapa, Tam Dao and Dalat were all established as mountain... Read more

Down on the farm

January 9, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Down on the farm

Tourists help farmers harvest rice during a Mekong Delta farm tour. Intrepid travelers across Vietnam are stepping out of their stuffy offices and fleeing the noisy, crowded city for a taste of life on the farm. Farm Tours in the Mekong Delta have taken off, with weary city dwellers opting to enjoy the quiet, space... Read more

Alleys form soul of old Hoi An

January 3, 2010  . Filed under News, Travel

Alleys form soul of old Hoi An

Local residents walk in a narrow alley in Hoi An.LookAtVietnam - Falling in love with Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam is to fall in love with its wonderful alleyways, which for locals are the soul of their home town.According to the town’s documents, major roads in Hoi An, such as Tran Phu, Nguyen Thai Hoc and Bach Dang were formed in the 17th... Read more

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