Vinfast Vehicle

Vinfast has created a breakthrough

 in Vietnam’s automobile industry

Vinfast conglomerate came in the Paris Motor Show to show off its brand new sedan and SUV. The first is named the Lux A2.0 and the latter Lux SA2.0, which have drawn the car fans as they contain letters and numbers instead of a name like Cadilac.

The ambitious fledging automaker has plucked Australian senior engineers who ever helped Fords, Holdens, and Toyota and now help kickoff the newcomer Vinfast. Those engineers are highly regarded in this industry.

Australia is known for the cutting edge car industry that has produced many talented engineers and designers. Many of them have relocated due to the redundancy and uncertainty about the future of this field in this country.

Vinfast Vice President Roy Flecknell revealed at the show that the flexibility and broad knowledge are vital to Vinfast’s first-two-year development.

In addition to the Vinfast car show, the media attention presence of football star David Beckham has created a surprise and has hooked the interest of car enthusiasts. It is an impressive highlight of a high profile marketing campaign for their premium vehicle. David Beckham is known for driving all manners of luxury rides from Range Rover, Porches, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, saying that it’s incredible to produce vehicles such as Lux A2.0 and Lux SA2.0 in short a space of time.

Vinfast has not only made a miracle for Vietnam but also has spell-bound the world in terms of the automobile industry. 

Hue City

Hue used to be a formal imperial capital sitting in Central Vietnam. It is located along the bank of the Perfume River, one of the landmarks of Vietnam. Tourists would find the footprint of one-time political, cultural, and religious centre through ancient constructions and monuments that have been changed or worn less or much with time. However, with its historic values, Hue is recognised as one of the world heritage sites by UNESCO.

If you are a history buff or a person who wants to discover the exotic culture, Hue definitely stays in your top list of a tour in Central Vietnam because it is an opportunity to learn about the vanished Vietnamese feudal empire, the complex of monuments, shrines, tombs, and pagodas that have spellbound thousands of tourists.

A top list of a tour may be Hue Citadel which scatters along the Perfume River, occupies a large and bound area that protects a royal imperial and comprises royal palace, shrines, and an inner city. It takes a day to discover this mysterious complex.

What to do in Hue is a question in your mind when arriving in Hue. In addition to visits to tombs, pagodas, you will find moments of relaxation lying on a white silky sand beach, twinkling in sunshine with blue ocean.

A coffee shop above is a place for a tourist to take a rest in a middle of a trip. It is designed under a rustic construction that creates a rural environment.

Da Lat City is known as a city of flowers, a place for honeymooners. It attracts the interest of tourists thanks to beautiful waterfalls, lakes that sit in lush, green valleys. Da Lat City used to be under the management of French Administration, thus, it retains French construction villas. Da Lat City is also noted for a city of thousands of pine trees. It is gifted with the mild climate quite different from most of the other regions in Vietnam, a temperature country. With such of these advantages, Da Lat City is always overwhelmed with tourists on holidays like Christmas, New Year, and Lune New Year. As a result, many homestays have mushroomed recent years that helps travellers with much more choices in terms of accommodation.

In addition to the beauty of nature, Da Lat is home to coffee, tea and rubber plantations that extend to the horizon. Those who love Da Lat City name it a city of love, a city of poetry, and a green city. These names prove that Da Lat City is a must in an itinerary of your tour in Vietnam.

The photograph courtesy of Thanh Nien Online

Sapa is a must in your itinerary

Sapa today changes completely into a tourist centre in northwest Vietnam, quite different from a hill station it used to be in 1922. When coming to Sapa, you discover spectacular cascading rice terraces, surrounded by hills and mounts that tour all of their sides. Standing on a hill and looking down, you are thrilled with views subdued by thick clouds rolling across the peaks and hill tribe people who fill their town with their colourful clothing.

Sapa is quite changed as the tourism has developed to meet the requirement of tourists. However, thanks to building height restriction, Sapa still retains its skyline thrusting upwards. Once launching yourself in Sapa, don't miss its love market, a single's night imaginable.

The photograph courtesy of VN Express Online

Safety first

A UN model of sustainable construction in Vietnam

The Green One United Nations House (GOUNH) in Hanoi, which was inaugurated in 2015 with the presence of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, indicates the Growth of Viet Nam and UN cooperation in terms of sustainable development. The GOUNH staff has been encouraged to work in a way of green behaviors by reducing printing, replacing plastic products and using means of public transport. As a result, GOUNH achieved a third of their energy reduction target by boosting solar water heating and smart environment control. The appropriate fixture also generates a 42% reduction of water use. In addition, the building uses solar panels to collect power energy.

After three years putting into operation, the GOUNH has been acclaimed by international community with a lot of awards. This is a sustainable model in which innovative models and sustainable management practice represent foundations to meet sustainable development goals. GOUNH is considered as a typical, successful building of the cooperation between Vietnam and UN. 

Hoi An Ancient Town

Hoi An is known for its ancient construction style. When the night is falling, all-kind lanterns are lightening the town. You come here not only to discover long-standing houses but also enjoy authentical foods of middle Vietnam.

The photo above illustrates a typical restaurant in Hoi An Town with ancient furniture which seems to be made for some decades ago.

The photograph courtesy of VN Express Online

A Horse-Drawn Carriage

Before 1965, a horse-drawn carriage was commonly used in Vietnam's big cities. It was a public transportation then. A carriage is pulled by a horse and a rider sits in its front part. A carriage maximally contains 4 pax. 

The photograph courtesy of VN Express Online

Da Lat City

Dalat City in the early morning is a time to capture romantic, beautiful photos. It is not only a tourist attraction for local and international travellers but a place for photographic enthusiasts to satisfy their hobby.

To experience these sceneries, an advice for tourists is to rent a motorcycle to drive around the city and its suburban.

The photograph courtesy of Thanh Nien Online

Long-Standing Church in Kontum

An over-100-year church in Kontum, middle Vietnam was built from 1913 to 1918, a mix of Roman style construction and stilt house of Bana. Bana is the ethnic minority people in this region. The church was made of wood. It is not only a religious place for Christian but also a tourist attraction.   

The photograph courtesy of VN Express

Cajuput Forest Tra Su

Cajuput Forest Tra Su offers you tours on creeks meandering between two sides of cajuput which provide more cooling shades, particularly on sunny days. You could also discover customs of ethnic minority people Khmer and Cham, their mosques in this region.

The photograph courtesy of VN Express

The Park near Prenn Waterfall

Da Lat is known as a tourist attraction and noted for hills, valleys that draw the attention of thousands of loving couples or those who want to enjoy honey-moon voyages. The photo above depicts a small park near Prenn waterfall where students organize open-air activities in summer.

Photograph courtesy of VN Express

Coffee shop in Hoi An Ancient Town

A coffee shop is found the off beaten path in Hoi An Town. A small alley leads to this shop whose owner decorate it with the yellow, colourful lanterns to create a cosy atmosphere.   

The photograph courtesy of  VN Expess

Coloured Lantern Festival

Coloured Lantern Festival enlights the spiritual culture of the Vietnamese that takes place on occasions which people pray welfare for the dead.

The photograph courtesy of VN Express Online

On the opening school day

The opening school day is on the corner. Students across the country come back to school after summer vacation. On these days, some regions in northern Vietnam have hit by some typhoons or floods due to heavy rains. The photo above describes students crossing a so-called bridge on the way to school. Fatal risks are waiting for them.

The photograph courtesy of VN Express online

Cliff Dia (Cliff Leech)

Cliff Dia (Cliff Leech) is one of the tourist attractions in Phu Yen, Vietnam and was recognised as a national beautiful landscape in 1998. It is on the list of national reserve the government of Phu Yen Province has protected and developed in the coming days. 

The photograph courtesy of Thanh Nien Online

Unique Constructed Palace of Ethnic Minority People Mong

Mr.Duc, Vuong Chinh, named King Meo (King Cat, a nickname of ethnic minority people Mong) had the palace designed at the beginning of the 20th century. It was built in a valley surrounding hills, woods and is considered as a unique palace in Vietnam.

The photograph courtesy of Thanh Nien Online

Moc Chau Province

November is a month for backpackers to travel to Moc Chau Province, northern Vietnam. The plum season sinks some areas in white along with the cool climate that makes a feeling of the coming of the New Year. Moc Chau Province is developing the tourism in which many ethnic minority girls become local tourists. Sometimes, they provide a free tourist guide and in turn, tourists buy their traditional handcrafted products.

The photograph courtesy of The Thao Van Hoa

7 Unique Ways Solar Is Utilised

7 Unique ways of Solar Energy

Solar technology is not only changing the way that enables us to live in a more environment-friendly society, but there are also some innovations that we should think about as different methods to harvest solar energy as follows:

• Trash and recycling: Trash cans and recycling bins that are outfitted with solar-powered compactors use solar energy to compress their contents. The benefit of these pieces of equipment is compacting the trash people throw in increases the capacity of equipment, reducing their need to be emptied by up to 80%. In addition, they provide cost savings on labour and transporting trash.

• Emergency medicine: Solar technology provides power to emergency treatment that plays a key role in medicine in a far remote region or in the wake of natural disasters. For instance, health-care workers can use solar energy in medical lighting, communications, laptops and small medical devices.

• Vehicles: People can energize electric cars with solar energy from rooftop solar panels or the grid. In addition, they increasingly find parking garages, small shelters and other structures outfitted with solar panels to charge their cars.

• Clothing: A large number of designers have generated a range of fashion styles, from tee-shirts to jackets to backpacks to jewelry, which incorporates solar technology. For example, Dutch designer Pauline Van Dongen created a t-shirt that can generate up to one watt of electricity.

• Device Chargers: These chargers are portable, giving outdoors enthusiasts much convenience.

• Ski lifts: these lifts include a system of about 80 solar panels to power them. The lift is also connected to the power grid in case it doesn’t get sunlight on snowy days.

• Paint: In the future, users might be able to use paint to collect energy from sun to power their house. Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology are developing a solar paint which absorbs solar energy and moisture from the air and then splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can then energize a fuel cell. This paint turns any object into a source of energy.

Hoi An Ancient Town

On 13 August 2018, Sarah Tran and her boyfriend Toby arrived in Hoi An Ancient Town. As a blogger, Tran has taken advantage of travelling in Vietnam to pose for as many photos as possible. In Hoi An, she had a coffee and milk that she felt too strong. Sarah Tran comes from the mixed blood as her father is Vietnamese and her mother is Australian.   

The photograph courtesy of VN Express Online