Mum! Let me go

Kids like going out with their parents. Thus, every time they know their parents are going somewhere, they try to aks for following at any effort. This FB post illustrates this. 

The mother goes to market. She doesn't want to drive her child, but he insists on going with her by clinging the end of a motorbike to prevent her from driving. That post gets a hit on Facebook.

The child is clinging the end of a motorbike yelling fiercely. 

Some more fun photos on the following link Photos. The content is in Vietnamese.

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Sapa captured from above

Vietnam Run was held in Sapa, northern Vietnam that hooked the participation of thousands of people, including Vietnamese and expats. People have known Sapa through print, online media, and social media platforms. Now, this event gives participants on-ground experience that they spread by posting them or words of mouth.

Many feelings, photos of participants are passed on, generating participation advocate on social media.

For more photos, visit the following link Sapa. The content is in Vietnamese.

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Sapa Marathon

Sapa Marathon was organized in the northern Vietnam that has drawn thousands of participants, including Vietnamese and foreigners. This is a kind of co-creation promotion of Sapa's tourism. Photos which were taken during this event were posted on social media platforms and worth of mouth results in a great impact on the public in terms of tourism.

Sapa marathon is an idea that combines an aspect of sports and tourism promotion. Sapa has been advertised in print, online media and social media. This activity brings to people on-spot experience.

There is a collection of photos captured during this Sapa marathon. If you want to see, visit the following link Sapa Marathon. The content is in Vietnamese.


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Ngu Ho Cascade (Five-Fall Cascade)

Ngu Ho Cascade (Five-Fall Cascade) sits in National Park Bach Ma (White House), a place that still retains primaeval forests. Ngu Ho Cascade crashes down a pool of turquoise water under a canopy of foliage, a stop for tourists after a long trek in National Park.

National Park Bach Ma includes more than 1400 species of plants, rare ferns and orchids. It is a discovery of flora for tourists as it represents one-fifth of the flora of Vietnam. 

For more photos, please visit photos. The content is in Vietnamese. 

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A tour in the southern Vietnam

An ecosystem tour in the southern Vietnam gives a tourist a discovery of National Park Tram Chim (a green island of the red-headed crane) in Dong Thap Province. 

A tourist guide in traditional wear or rustic life clothes sits in the front end of a motor-boat to introduce scenes along two sides of a small river. 

For more photos of this national park, visit the following link photos. The content is in Vietnamese.

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Mu Cang Chai

Mu Cang Chai is captured from above, a majestic and beautiful rice terrace. Mu Chai Cang is a rural district of Yen Bai Province, northwest Vietnam. Every September, thousands of flocks of tourists pour into this rice terrace when rice turn golden and is ready for crop harvest. It's hard but warm-hearted life, home to H'Mong ethnic minority group.

From mid-September to mid-October is time for travelling, however, it depends on climate change. It is a window of opportunity for tourists to learn a rustic life, to enjoy sticky rice, a speciality of this place.

For more photos of Mu Cang Chai, visit the following link: Mu Cang Chai.

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Schooling in a far remote region

Is she a backpacker who is travelling on a swift stream to enjoy the beauty of nature? No, it's not true. It is a teacher in a far remote region who goes to the first day of school opening.

Wearing a school bag on the back, she doesn't put on a life vest and a boat seems to be almost sunk into a stream.

With a smile on her face, she seems to be unaware of a grim reaper that is waiting for her at the river bed if she falls down in water. On a riverside are some adults looking at her, even one takes a photo of her as if it is common sense to take a boat in such a setting.

Schooling is a noble job to help children on their path to a bright future. Thus, the safety of teacher's life must be paid attention. Nobody recognises it, even a local government ignores this issue while teachers play a key role in the national development. How poor for teachers in such a region.

For more photos depicting children's going to school by boat, visit the following photos

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Hoang Su Phi

Hoang Su Phi sits in Ha Giang Province, Every year, a rice harvest crop comes to around September. This year, it comes a little late that brings about an opportunity for backpackers to enjoy the sightseeing of rice terraced fields. 

A photo above gives an impression that some houses sink into green tides, a common sight in the northern Vietnam where ethnic minority groups live on farming, husbandry.

For more photos, visit the following link Ha Giang.

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Cottages in Cho Lon Town

The photo above is one of French Jack Garofalo collection (1923 - 2004). He is also known for a photo collection Harlem During Summertime 2004. A photo above describes a way of life of Chinese-originated Vietnamese who left their homeland to earn a living in a foreign country. A then traffic was sailing. Small boats are a means of transportation to transfer their goods from one place to another without the cost of fuel that is replaced by the labor force. Small, narrow channels bring economic benefit to inhabitants.

More photos feature in the following link photos. The content is in Vietnamese.

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A bizarre sign in Phu Quoc beach

A "second to none" sign "No lying on the beach Phu Quoc" caused a shock to tourists. Local restaurants put signs banning tourists lying on the beach Phu Quoc instead of renting their beach chairs. Due to the reaction of people, they had to pull out this sign.

Eco-friendly wild beach Phu Quoc offers resorts that include bungalows with a sea view. Tourists find some activities such as snorkeling, diving, and fishing on their own request.

For more information, visit the following link Tuoi Tre online.

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Pieces of rice fields

Pieces of rice fields captured from above are characteristics of Vietnam's farming. Ever-green pieces are paddies after a time of growing. In some pieces of land, people are bowing to put seeds. Pale yellow pieces are areas that are already seeded. Many spots on pieces are buddles of paddies to grow.

For more photos, visit a link photos.

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Ancient Cho Lon Town

French photographer Jack Garofalo used to live in a China town, Cho Lon. He has a collection of photos depicting a life of Chinese originated Vietnamese in 1960's. The photo above is one of his collection that features on VN Express online. The collection gives a brief description of Chinese culture of Chinese who left their homeland to earn a new life in another country, Vietnam. 

If you are more curious about this culture, visit a link Cho Lon Town. The content is in Vietnamese.

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Ethnic minority people Chi La

Before reading the small content that depicts the photo above, you take some minutes to think what it is. If you guest what it is, you cool man.

It is wet rice fields of ethnic minority people Chi La who live in the northern Vietnam. The majority of these people live on farming. The image above describes a wet rice field, a person is walking a narrow path meandering across a field.

Chi La People's houses are built on stilts. It includes three parts. The main part consists of an ancestor shrine. Each household has a gong and a drum to be used in ritual ceremonies led by a head of a family lineage.

More photos in a link Photos

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Dai Tong Lam Pagoda

Dai Tong Long Pagoda sits in Vung Tau City, southern Vietnam. It was built in 1958 by veteran Thich Thien Hoa and was renovated in 1982. Its campus is near 100 hectares. Dai Tong Lam is seen as a pagoda whose number of Buddha statues ranks the top of Vietnamese pagoda. A record number is more than 10,000.

The campus consists of a learning institution that has the capacity of about 1,000 learners. The sanctum is well noted as is ranked the largest one among Vietnam's pagoda. It was constructed in 2002 with 90 meters long and 46 meters wide.

More information in the link: Dai Tong Lam Pagoda. The content is Vietnamese.

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Mu Cang Chai

Mu Cang Chai is captured after a flood. The North Vietnam had undergone a calamity that caused a great damage to the region and people. Some routes are destroyed, some bridges are collapsed.

After a rain is a bright sun. Daily activities resume. Inhabitants are trying to recover damages caused by natural disaster. Ripe rice crops come around, farmers go to fields to reap.

For more photos of terraced fields, visit the following link: Mu Cang Chai. It is in Vietnamese.

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Men's long dress.

In Vietnam's traditional wedding, a groom and a bride all wear long dresses. A Vietnamese girl in a long dress is used to represent Vietnam. The Vietnamese are proud of the traditional wear as it honors the gracefulness of Vietnamese girl's slim silhouette.

Nowadays, the western trend in clothing hooks young people's attention. It is also convenient to work in the office, to have a meeting, a reception in luxurious hotels where they meet their foreign colleagues.




However, the upper-class people want to make their wedding original by wearing long dresses. A groom and a bride wear different long dresses during a process of their wedding.

The dress above is designed 3D sophisticatedly with white background and black highlights. This sort of business is getting better off.

If you want to see more photos, visit the following link. However, the content is in Vietnamese.
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Photo Contest "Savour Vietnam"

A competition of photos of Vietnam, named Savour Vietnam, is organized August 15, 2017, to August 30, 2018. The topic of the contest depicts the beauty of nature in Vietnam, people, its culture. It is a kind of co-creation promotion on Vietnam tourism. The first prize is pretty attractive, including near USD 2000 plus a travel voucher valued roughly USD 1000. The value of a prize is worthy of participating in the tournament.

It is a window of opportunity for a professional or amateur photographer to satisfy their passion. For those interested in this event, visit a link Photo Contest "Savoir Vietnam" for further information.

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Massive wedding of a hundred of lovers

It is not a parade for a statutory holiday or a promotional procession but a massive wedding organized by a local government. It is an idea to help young people in a community who are in need to get married. They may be manual workers in suburban factories, maids, nail makers who have to leave their home land to land a job. Their monthly wages make both ends meet, how they can hold their wedding by their own.

The interest of the society in this regard is worthy of appreciation. It is a people-to-people interest that helps people overcome difficulties of material to come together in a couple's happiness.

Annually, Ho Chi Minh City's local government (Vietnam) organizes a massive wedding for a hundred of couples of lovers whose parents are too poor to hold a wedding party for their beloved children. This is a model that should be adapted to bring happiness to young people in love.

Every couple is offered a bicycle with which a groom drives a bride in a parade downtown. They are clad in traditional wedding wear. In a basket of a bicycle, there is a wedding crowd of a bride. A bride sitting behind wears a conic hat, holding a groom's waist, a romantic scene.

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Tam Coc

Tam Coc-Bich Dong is a well-known attraction in north Vietnam and part of Trang An scenic complex. The photo above depicts a line of small boats is sailing along golden rice paddy fields with a soundtrack of river lapping against oars. The fields end in the beginning of cliff formation 

Tam Coc means three caves, a zone that elapses between rice paddies bathed by a river, punctuated by limestone outcrops. Tam Coc is known as an overland equivalent of Ha Long Bay because of rock formation, caves, water, and landscape. 

Tourists may know about Tam Coc as the film "Indochine" was shot here that put it on a tourist map. Both good and bad come of its burgeoning popularity - access road has been improved, though some canal banks have been lined with concrete. It is a must in a tour in Vietnam tourists should enjoy discovering the beauty of nature. 

Vu Lan Festival (Vietnamese Mother's Festival, Ghost Festival)

Some people call Vu Lan Festival, others name Ghost Festival as souls are in search of mercy. And a lot of others Vietnamese Mother's Day. Whatever it is. the day takes place on the 15 of July of the lunar year (September 5, this year). As the second largest festival in Vietnam after the Lunar New Year, it is a nation-wide celebration among families, businesses.

In Buddha's belief, the seventh month of the Lunar New Year is a month of spirits.Wandering souls are believed to return to their families. 

A legendary story has suggested that Buddha's disciple named Muc Kien Lien saw that his deceased mother was tortured in the hell. According to Buddha's advice, he gathered monks and devotees to pray for his mother's relieve. Thus, the meaning of the festival is to show gratitude and appreciation towards parents and help ancestors' wandering souls return the earth.

On this day, Buddha followers go to a pagoda, wearing a white rose, to pray for their decent parents, particularly their died mothers.

For further information, visit the following link: Vu Lan Festival.

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