The best times to visit Ha Giang Province

A kid on a bicycle on the way back home after a school is a familiar picture in a rural area in Ha Giang Province. Ha Giang Province offers you the best times to tour this region. Peach and plum seasons in January, February and March bring you an opportunity to explore the picturesque landscape in which you learn about the lifestyle of ethnic minority people.

The love market takes place in April when you find ancient lovers come to meet each other. They have fallen in love for a while. However, they couldn't end up with marriage due to the complications in their lives. True love inspires them to meet again after a separation. When the one-day market closes, everyone returns their home with their husbands, wives, and children with others' jealousy.

Ha Giang Province

Ha Giang is the most exquisite landscape in Vietnam's frontier and fantastic scenery of limestone pinnacles as well. It is enjoyable to explore this city before heading out in the wild. Homestays offer you friendly accommodation.

Trekking and hiking are ones of tourist activities to admire picturesque farmlands climbing up to rocky and edged cliffs. Also, it brings in an opportunity to learn about the lifestyle of the region's ethnic minority people. 

Hue Imperial Citadel

Vietnam ranks the sixth of Lonely Planet's top ten must-visit destinations in Asia-Pacific this year. One of Vietnam's can't-miss visits is Hue City. As the UK Travel Magazine advertises that bookended by Saigon's vibrant energy and the historic ambience of Hanoi, central Vietnam offers tourists a diverse region.

Hue's authentic cuisine showcases its variety of gastronomy and imperial legacy. The Imperial Citadel witnessed the ruling, glories and falling of the Nguyen Dynasty, the last king to rule the country. 

Homestay in Ha Giang Province

Homestay in Lo Lo Chai Town, Ha Giang Province offers you a window of opportunity to live with a local community and learn about their lifestyle, culture, and customs. Rural life has attracted a lot of visitors' interest. Due to the aid of finance coming from different sources, Lo Lo Chai has developed this kind of business to give you a chance to learn about the culture and tradition of this region. 

Dalat Homestay

Homestay in Da Lat City is a booming business which brings in much profit to locals. Competing with many hotels that sit in the centre of the city, homestays offer visitors unique identities such as locating in a suburb separate from the hustle and bustle of town, or nestling between hills and valleys where people live near nature.

Due to mild weather with 14,600 hectares of growing land, Da lat takes use of its advantage in agriculture to offer you tours to its farms. You will select fruits you want to give your loved ones as a souvenir or buy for yourself. Or you can admire various kinds of flowers in gardens to take selfies.   

Huong River

Huong River, or River of Perfume, sits in Middle Vietnam. It flows past many historic sites, including a citadel where you learn about the ancient architect. Hue City is proud of Huong River as it represents an identity of this province. A visit to this province is incomplete without taking a boat along this river.

It has many names such as Lo Dung, Linh, Dinh, Kim Tra, Huong. Huong has originated from the scent tourists feel on a journey along this river. Also, Huong River is an inspiration of poetry which has spellbound poets. It associates with the cultural life here, including ca Hue, skiff racing.

Hue Museum

Hue Museum has connected many social systems such as national and international associations, communities, universities to promote Hue historical identities. Through these social platforms, they have conveyed their messages, word of mouth, press release to make activities about this relic known all over the world.

Hue Museum has developed social media to advance diversity, encourage people of colour to join and contribute to the aspects of culture, art and museums. These people take advantage of digital and online tours, opportunities of sharing, talking, being training in terms of culture.

Tuyet Tinh Cave

Tuyen Tinh Cave sits in Ninh Binh Province in northern Vietnam. Vietnam is known for beaches and seas, and Buddhist pagodas but mountains account for one-third of Vietnam. Trekking in these regions attracts climbing enthusiasts to find windows of opportunity to overcome heights of mountains.

Da Lat in sunset

Da Lat City, under a view of a heartbroken girl, becomes gloomy and pessimistic. A fisherman, on the way back to his home village after a hard day fishing, feels burnout and expects to join his family's dinner along with children.

Those who come to Da Lat City once want to revisit it. Da Lat brings to tourists moments of relaxation, living near steep hills, valleys, and lakes. Nowadays, travellers find many homestays which have mushroomed across Da Lat. 

An Hien Garden House

An Hien Garden House is a wooden one, one of architectural heritage, that sits in an ancient land. An Hien is the first item when tourists visit Hue Province, Middle Vietnam. It converges the quintessence noble and traditional folk colour, An Hien is one of seven can't-miss gardens.

Its location is ideal, looking down the Perfume River and being near Thien Mu Pagoda. It brings in natural harmony, intact landscape and architectural features.   

Homestay in Vietnam

Homestay is a kind of business that has grown in many suburban Vietnam. It has drawn the interest from international and domestic tourists and has brought a source of income to local owners. Homestay provides travellers with experiences in living mountainous areas, surrounded by rivers, lakes. In other words, they stay near nature, are harmanised with rural life, have opportunities to meet farmers, and experiece growing in farms.

The rate of rooms is around US$ 7 to US$ 10 per day. A room includes a fan, a hammock, bamboo beds. A cook serves them with fast domestic food. Many like this kind of accommodation as they like to live far away from hustles and bustle of a modern city. 

Ta Xua Natural Reserve

Ta Xua, a mountain reserve in Son La Province, is an off the beaten path. It is untouched by tourist commerce, thus retains hallmarks of the natural beauty. The only way to explore this region is to take a motorbike on routes, running through mountains and reserves starting from Son La to Nghia Lo.

Also, Ta Xua is home to Thai ethnic minority who ranks the third most prominent ethnic group in Vietnam. Their population accounts for 2% of Vietnamese one. Their Identities include women's garments and houses on stilt, an effective design to help inhabitants from floods and dangerous animals. 

Tam Coc Cave

As the name says, Tam Coc means three caves, the most attractive destination, in Trang An Complex, northern Vietnam. It sits 90km away from Hanoi, capital of Vietnam has become one of UNESCO's heritage sites.

It is also a place for shooting famed films such as Kong: Skull Island or Indochine that brought many job opportunities to locals and has inspired lots of tourists who want to see magnificent scenes in the films.

Tam Coc features specular canals, karst rock formation, golden rice field stretching along endless canals as is seen as an unspoiled nature.

Playing Wheels

This is one of the most stunning Instagram photos. It depicts children tossing wheels on sand dunes at sunset after a working day, helping their parents in farming. A toy is simply a used wheel.

Vietnamese Farmers Join Hands To Protect The Environment

In cope with deforestation and illegal hunting, many farmers in Hau Giang Province have formed a group to protect Luu Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve, hailed as "the lung of the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam. This nature reserve was established in 2002 with a hope of maintaining a natural habitat for several species of animals native to Vietnam. It spans 2800 hectares and accommodates 300 different species of plants and animals.

Seeing the reserve as their second home, they organise regular patrols across the forest to prevent illegal intruders and lumberjacks. They burn beehives to take honey which is the main income of these farmers. An owner of 20 beehives earns up to USD 1,700, a significant profit for rural life in Vietnam.

Many families, in low living condition, seek ways to make money by cutting down trees or illegal fishing. This group of farmers come up with solutions to help families in need live on farming.  

Film "The Third Wife" ceased releasing at box offices

"The Third Wife" is a painterly drama that draws cinematographic enthusiasts into a cloistered world of an 18th-century family whose is a landowner. Through the running time, viewers would experience every moment of touch, be it tolerated, happy and feared. The film starts at a remote, lovely stretch of a river-run valley, 14-year-old May gets married to the old landowner as the youngest of his three mistresses. He desires another son as two other older wives fail to give birth. Later, May is pregnant that brings to her husband happiness and hope. In the meantime, she feels her true sexuality when living closely with Xuan, the second free-spirit wife who falls in love with her husband's son and engages in secret affairs with him.

The film illustrates injustice suffered by Vietnamese women in the feudal regime and old customs such as child marriage, gender prejudice, and polygamy. It won many prestigious awards, including Best Asian Film at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. The indie movie has commercially shown in 28 countries and territories before screening in Vietnam.

After a few days of release at many national cinemas raised a controversy. Under critics' point-of-view, suggestive scenes between a 13-year-old girl and an old man are wholly against the ethics of the Orient. The release of The Third Wife has received such public criticism that producer Ngoc Tran decided to cease screening in the local country. Since she does not want to create an impact on the young actress's personal life and family. According to Ngoc, the film does not deserve to be deliberately criticised. Instead, public criticism should turn on child sexual abuse in reality. Also, shooting these scenes were undergone with the witness of the actress's parents. At the moment, there are a lot of pros and cons of a ban on this film.

Vietnamese Model Criticized for a Scanty Gown at Cann

Vietnamese Model Ngoc Trinh's appearance in the Cann Film Festival has drawn the public attention, not for her beauty but her black revealing gown that leaves little to the imagination. A 29-year-old lady is brimmed with confidence to pose in front of many cameras at the screening of a German film "A Hidden Life". The U.K. tabloid Newspaper Daily Mail said the Vietnamese star was in an ensemble that was cut so high that made us wince.

Her appearance in "the most sensitive" suit has raised social media users' criticism in the home country. A high-rank officer said Ngoc Trinh is not representative to Vietnam to participate in a famed activity as she did not star any film that was previewed. Her attendance was quite her business. However, her clothes were inappropriate for Vietnamese customs. Some said this is her intention that shows an objectional behaviour and "scandal causing" attempt, one of the tricks celebrities want to draw the public attention to her.

Tra Que Vegetable Village

Sitting near the centre of Hoi An Ancient Town, a well-known resort city in central Vietnam, Vegetable Village Tra Que used to be seen as a top can't-miss destination in South East Asia, ranked by French daily morning Le Figaro in 2015. It nests in the Cam Ha Commune, northeast of Hoi An, UNESCO's world heritage site recognized in 1999.

This small village consists of nearly 220 households and more than half of them live on farming, occupying 40 hectares, to grow organic green produce to supply Hoi An Town and neighbouring provinces. The outstanding of their vegetable features natural colours, tastes, and flavour that have spellbound gastronomic enthusiasts. The know-how of this attraction is that farmers don't use manure or chemical fertilizers but a sort of algae existed in the ground around Tra Que Village. Thus, Tra Que's vegetable is highly appreciated due to its freshness, tastiness and safety. The last attribute is a great concern of people as Vietnam now has a growing rate of cancer.

The Sxth Festival of Ao Dai (Long Dress)

The Ao Dai Festival that began with an impressive variety of colourful fabric, designs by 26 local and international designers wowed thousands of city people and enthusiasts. This festival featured many celebrities, high-rank officers, and ambassadors of events, especially, H'hen Nie's presence who sealed the top five place at the Miss Universe contest.

The procession was planned in the morning with the participation of thousands of performers and audience as well. The final round would take place in the evening of the same day on pedestrian street Nguyen Hue,  Ho Chi Minh City.

Fishing on Hon Yen Islet

This is one of the stunning collection of photographs by Lesman Tran Bao Hoa. This piece depicts the scene of fishermen pulling out fishing nets to catch anchovies, considered as a Vietnamese condiment, fish sauce.

It is not until night falls, groups of fishermen catch out fishing nets to fish anchovies. The piece of work is full of toil and moil. It ends around 9 p.m., then they come back to their village.

Hearing a tip-off of a friend, a native of this islet that it is time for canary's migration, the author of this collection came to Phu Yen Province to snapshot these impressive moments of this migration and daily life on the beach.

The photograph courtesy of VN Express