Buddhist Le Vu Lan Festival

Quan Su Pagoda is one of the top 3 pagodas in Hanoi where many Buddha worshippers go to pray on Le Vu Lan Festival. The festival falls in the 15th of the 7th month of the lunar calendar. It is an opportunity for people to pray for their parents and great, great grand-parents, both living or passed away.

Upon arrival, worshippers wear white followers for those whose parents have died and red flowers for those whose parents are still living. They pray the best for living ones and for the deceased's souls to be at peace. A prayer says when their parents are dead, they go to the west where the sun sets. Fruit-Laden tables are displayed for those who died and look for the way to the west; now, they are hungry.

Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach visited Hoi An Ancient Town.

Miss Universe 2015 of the Philipines Pia Wurtzbach posted some photos about her visit to Hoi An Ancient Town that has drawn the attention from more than 9 million views. Wurtzbach spent a lot of time strolling downtown to admire River Hoai, sipping coffee at a lovely coffee shop, and enjoying authentic food at Faifo Restaurant.

Also, she wore  Vietnamese traditional long dress and a conic hat that are Vietnamese girl's identity. On her post said she to thank for warmly welcome of local people and Hotel Allegro. Hopefully, she will visit it in a not-too-long-distant future.  

An Giang Province

Looking from the top of Sam Mountain, An Giang Province, you see an immense rice field leading to Chau Doc City. This area attracts thousands of pilgrims due to sacred places, including temples and pagodas. The majority of Chinese here creates a strong influence. Also, you would explore Islamic, Indian and Khmer influences in visits to religious places. 

In addition, this site is a landmark that reveals historical crimes in which the Khmer Rouge made a cross-border raid into Vietnam and massacred thousands of innocent Vietnamese inhabitants. 

Homestay in Da Lat City looks like a wilder nest.

Da Lat City has emerged as a tourist destination in Vietnam. Many homestays look like a wilder nest and offer you a genuine local emersion. Known as a romantic city, Da Lat is a must-visit for the Vietnamese and foreigners to go for weekends. Tourist season booming typically falls on holidays. This is why many homestays have developed, and each of them owns a unique construction style that satisfies small-budget travellers and has turned them into loyal clients. 

Thai teacher in a weird appearance makes confidence in a class.

Thai English teacher in a unique appearance creates the curiosity of the public and boost confidence among his students. Teacher Theeraphong Meesat, 29 years old, has taught at the Prasartratprachakit High School in Ratchaburi Province.

With a grey wig like Lisa's one from the popular K-pop band and eyelash made from a feather duster, he struts into his class to start an English hour. Students used to dislike English as they made lots of mistakes in reading and writing and felt less confidence in writing.

After a time learning English with Theeraphong due to their curiosity, they now think that English is full of fun. They call him Bally and more of them feel eager to learn English as it is less boring. 

Music Is the Best Medicine.

The 108 Military Central Hospital in Hanoi turns to music in treating its patients that mostly include injured soldiers and war invalids. This is one of the most prestigious hospitals in Vietnam as its capacities that stand out span the entire medical spectrum.

In an effort to ease patients' mental lives, the hospital has put a piano in the lobby and called for good-willed and volunteer musicians to play traditional or patriotic songs. Though it's hard to bury all feelings attaching to missing one's family or military unity, musicians' melodies appease patients' longing.  

The photograph courtesy of Tuoi Tre Online

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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.