Homestay in A Luoi Village

It is wonderful that in the scorching summer sun, you soak in the stream, sleep in the middle of mountains and forests. Let's take a discovery tour with your family, with the package price of around USD18 per person on weekend.

From Hue City, a bus takes you and your family along Highway 49 to the west, seeing all greenery of nature. Just over an hour, you arrive at A No Village, which sits inside forests and mountains.

A No Village has become a community-based environment destination since December 2019. The Vietnam Community Tourism Association trains villager to run home-stay, improve cooking skills, and learn how to retain the simplicity of local people.

A little far away home-stays, A Nor Waterfall with tree white streams sits in the middle of cliffs, green forests. Here you learn about how to fish in a stream,  

Geopark Dac Nong

After five-year establishing and development, Dak Nong Geopark has just recorded a memorable milestone when it becomes Vietnam's third park to join the Unesco Global Geopark Network.

At 22h on 16 July, Dak Nong Province held an online ceremony to honor the name of Global Geopark in 2020 organized by Global Geopark Network through Gotomeeting software.

This event does not only build the advantage to promote Vietnam's image in general and Unesco Dak Nong Geopark in particular internationally, preserving the geological values, biodiversity and cultural diversity of 40 ethnic minority groups in the province.

Looking back at the preparation process to achieve the title of Dak Nong Global Geopark, it can be seen that this is a clear and deliberate direction from scratch.

Hanh Thong Tay Church

The photo features Hanh Thong Tay Church, built by My Le Phat An, the uncle of Queen Phuong Nam and inside the church exists tombs of Le and his wife.

Mr. Le donated the land and cost of construction to build this church in 1921. He was one of the four richest people in Cochinechina in that period.

In earlier time, the parish of Hanh Thong Tay was suburbs, parishioners sparsely lived and were very poor. Knowing that, Mr. Le decided to spend a large amount of money to build the new, more spacious church.

The church was built in three years by a French contractor. He chose the design of the Byzantine style, modeling after the Basilica of Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. Byzantine style is an architectural style with a dome-shaped design and using many glass window to get light.

Y Ty

Y Ty Highland, Lao Cao Province, appears as a poetic picture with cloudy fogs at peaks and green terrace fields. Located at an attitude of 2,000 meters above sea level is a tourist destination that attracts many tourists and photographers.

Away from hundred-kilometer roads from Hanoi, roads in Y Ty is quite zigzag. Like many places in the Northwest, Y Ty brings to you majestic, rustic beauty.

About 80km away from Lao Cai City, today, transportation infrastructure to Y Ty has been upgraded, facilitating the growth of tourism. However, that land seems to separate from the hustle and bustle of a city. During a day, ethnic minority people go to a field in the morning, gather their family for meals at coze evening. 

Hoc Mon District

People in Hoc Mon District do not know that there is a beautiful place around them. Nearly mid June, Manh posted a set of the photos of the scenery of Hoc Mon District (Ho Chi Minh City) under the golden sunrise on a group of tourists Facebook that he joined with the caption: "My hometown in Hoc Mon has a beautiful sunrise."

Manh's posts received positive feedback, so far it attracted more than 4900 likes, and many expressed interest to admire the beauty of the place 20km from Ho Chi Minh City.

Pursuing his hobby of photography for about 2 years, the 29-year-old office worker has  a special interest in the type of landscape, life, especially scenes under sunrise and sunset.

Manh said: "Dawn and sunset are two golden moments in photography. The moment and light at these two times are really beautiful, and hard to create from photo editing software."

"The beauty of heaven and earth under the sunrise and sunset gives me peace and relaxation in the hustle and bustle city. Try to get up early, watch the sunrise with a little morning dew, breath fresh air, you feel the peace, full of energy for a new day, and sometimes get unbelievably beautiful photos. 

Mu Cang Chai Mountain

On the trip to Yen Bai, author Thien, Nguyen Ngoc (from Ho Chi Minh City) was impressed by rays of sunrise shining on the terrace fields and ethnic villages around the slopes of Mu Cang Chai Mountain. He recorded this moment and the National Shot of Your Shot posted the photo which ranks the top 12 photos of the day on Daily Dozen.

Once visiting this place, you love the moment when sun rays gently touch rice fields along with floating clouds making the landscape picture more beautiful. This will make you start an exciting day. This is the reason that Ms Kristen McNicholas, working in the Your Shot admin team, decided to post this photo. 

Select Hue As an Upcoming Trip

What do you know about my hometown Hue?

Hue represents a dreamy, romantic scenery with every single path captivating human souls. Creators endows Hue with turquoise Huong River, the calm water at dawn, the brilliant summer lunch, the sparkling evening and the magical night. A boat that takes guests across the river late afternoon, seems to be worn out, creates a breath-taking painting.

But Hue does not own Huong River only.

Hue is a poetical land. The land takes you back to the past or history, you are spellbound with the ancient Imperial Citadel, mossy temples, solemn mausoleum, and many history sites. architectural structure that keep traces of time. Dreaming about the past, appreciating the present, and striving to build the future is a meaningful way of living.

The pride of our homeland has recently multiplied in our hearts because Hue's scenes have been shot in so glittering and beautifully way. Lonely tree shadow towering in the air along with poetic purple roads are seen in the film Dreamy Eyes (Mat Biec). A corner of Thien Mu Pagoda looks down on the glistening Huong River or a boat downstream in the middle of water in film Tricky Old Girl (Gai Gia Lam Chieu).

Son Tra Peninsula

Son Tra Peninsula sits fanciful in the mist at dawn. Riding a motorbike along the Hoang Son coastal road, you discover the beauty of Son Tra Peninsula.

The peninsula covers an area of more than 4,400 hectares, 13km long with a circumference of about 60km, an average height of 350m, the highest place in Son Tra Mountain is peak Oc whose height is 700m. Along with Hai Van Pass and Da Nang Bay, Son Tra Peninsula looks like a curtain to protect and shield Da Nang City. Son Tra is about 10km northeast of Danang Center.

Reader's Digest Magazine Ranks Ha Long Bay as One of the Top Ten Destinations

Reader's Digest Canadian version ranks Ha Long Bay as one of the top ten destinations in Southeast Asia that a visitor should arrive before dying.

Ha Long Bay has more than 2000 large and small limestone islands protrude above the green water  and are covered with lush vegetation. Visitors should experience yachting, explore the bay for one or many days. The cruise package includes a visit to islands, caves, climbing, and kayaking.

Visitors should not come here during monsoon season, from June to September and from January to March. Another experience you choose is to take a boat to remote islands, less tourists to explore nature.  

Flower Season in Quang Nam

When you visit Quang Nam Province, you can forget the yellow flower season that captivates the heart of the local. At the end of March, flowers are in blossom along winding village roads. It is time that the local organize the Hung King's death anniversary, creating an opportunity for you to visit this place in this season.

You will enjoy the rustic scenery including flower bloom on the porch, on the sidewalk to the fields, on the bank to fields, orchards, in the old houses, or the hundred-year-old rocky roads meandering along small roads to a village.  

Relics in Hanoi reopens

Temple of literature Quoc Tu Giam, Ngoc Son Temple, Hoa Lu Prison and many other relics in Hanoi reopened on 14 May after a long social distancing due to the Covi-19 pandemic.

A notice sign in front of the temple of literature Quoc Tu Giam requests visitors to wear a mask and wash hands. At the ticket selling area, lines are drawn for visitors to line up one meter apart. Visitors must wear a mask, are measured the temperature of the body, and wash their hands with antiseptic solution before going into the monument. There is a limit of number of visitors for one tour which includes around 30 people to ensure the epidemic prevention.

Check in the unique date palm garden in the western Vietnam

These days, many young people check in the colorful data palm garden in Sa Dec City, Dong Thap Province. The garden is located next to Sa Nhien - Cao Dai Street, Tan Quy Dong Ward, and bustling on these days.

Garden farmers have planted date palm gardens for a dozen years, however, this is the first time to open for the public visit. From the open day, the garden welcomes from 300 to 400 visitors per day, particularly, on weekend a thousand people from cities pour into this place to take fresh air and stay away a hustling and bustling city. Unripe dates give orange color, when ripe, they produce purple color and sweet taste.

RIce Field in Lang Co

From a fallow, rice fields in Lang Co has reached an output of 30 tons per year. These fields have existed for a decade, they were deserted because of difficult transportation, field farmers went to fields by boat.

It was not until the late 2000s that things changed. Banyan Tree Group came up with a $ billion resort-golf course license, and they made a mountain road, now the main entrance.

Three years ago, the rice task force had increased buffalo pairs. From Tu Phat's father and Chi Chi's mother buffalo, they now have the first love of Bao, second Luna and youngest Lulu. The main task of the buffalo family is to graze the weeds after the harvest.

In previous years, there was only one rice harvest, because there was not enough water. At that time, production was not much due to diseases and insects. Pesticides can help protect crops, but co-owners do not advocate using them. But from 2020, with 10 hectares of land and a new irrigation system, rice harvest will become two crops. In the latest harvest more than a week ago, the total output reached 28 tons.

Samples of rice from the golf course land will be transferred for food quality and safety testing. If not, they will be discarded.

Tan Dinh Church

Tan Dinh Church, a pink church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is published by a American magazine. Cn Traveler travel magazine features Tan Dinh Church on the list of the 10 most beautiful pink destinations in the world.

It is one of the oldest churches in Vietnam, built in 1870, under the supervision of father Donatien Eveillard. The project is designed on the Roman style, with Gothic, Renaissance, and pink color covering towers, columns and windows. Inside, the church is painted strawberry pink

Nho Que River

Kayaking along emerald green River Nho Que, you will see the spectacular limestone alley, enjoying the fresh, cool air. In February and March, both sides of the river are dotted with the red color of flowers, contrasting with turquoise water.

Kayak is a sport of physical training, endurance and popular in the United States and Europe. It is gradually popular in Vietnam to serve tourism. When sailing, you have an opportunity to admire the natural beauty, enjoy the fresh air instead of sitting in cars or ships. In addition, you participate in a race among friends and relatives.  

An Dinh Palace

Singer Hoa Minzy released MV clip named "Can Not Be Together for a Lifetime." The clip is 9 minutes long and is inspired by the tearful love story between King Bao Dai and Queen Nam Phuong in the period of 1934 - 1946.

After the four-day release of the clip, it reached more than 12 million views and officially ranked the top 1 in YouTube Vietnam. Moreover, this music video impresses in YouTube in some countries such as Japan, Singapore, Australia, and Korea. Remarkably, the whole scene of the video clip was mostly shot in Thua Thien Hue, including ancient vestige complex, palace, and rivers.

Bo Mon Upland Kindergarten Ranks in the Top of New World Architecture Project

 

The Guardian has highly appreciated the kindergarten Bo Mon and other constructions for creativity, modernity, meeting the aesthetics and applications in the new age.   

The classroom is modern but imbued with a traditional home of indigenous residents. The impressive wavy roof is designed to prevent the heat effectively and create aesthetic lighting effects that change with every time in a day. 

The Guardian votes these ten projects in the setting in which the world is implementing the Covid-19 distancing. 

The common point of architecture projects in the top is beautiful, modern but does not lose the core traditional value. 

More especially, through these architectural works, viewers see their creativity and ability to cope with unusual challenging situations. 

Photo of Huong Pagoda ranks the first prize in the international contest

The first rank of the contest with a prize of USD1,000 is won by the work of Mua Hoa Sung by photographer Tran Quang Quy. This photo was taken at Yen Lake, the famous pagoda Huong.

The author said he wants to share the world with the beauty of Vietnamese culture: a group of Vietnamese girls clad in white long dresses and a bundle of flowers in hand on the way to Huong Pagoda.

In a dreamy setting with blooming flowers floating along the river, the bamboo bridge represents the connection between the past and the present.

Dresses are an outfit for ceremonies, conferences, and wedding. Also, it is the most popular clothing for high school or university students.

Hoi An Peddlers

Peddlers carrying goods is a typical image in Hoi An Ancient Town. In a photo, a peddler selling bananas is walking and crying along the street under colourful flowers. The photo describes an idyllic pace of life in the quiet street.

Domestic or international tourists visit Hoi An not only to explore the poetic scenery but also learn about the daily life in this place. They enjoy going to gardens to pick up the vegetable, cooking, raising buffalo or sailing. Local life is a unique feature of Hoi An tourism.

  

Fish Selling Motorbike

 

Ornamental fish selling motorbikes are a familiar sight for Vietnamese people. However, under the angle of a snapshot of an international professional photographer, the photo features the impressive beauty, winning the top prize of this year's Smithsonian Photo Contest. The piece of work received a comment "bearing a mark of traditional beauty."

Images of plastic bags containing ornamental fish at the back of a motorbike peddler display shimmering colour which has attracted the appreciation of the contest panel.

The Smithsonian Photo Contest is the leading prestigious photography award in the United States and has regularly hold since 2003