Dong Thap Province

 

Dong Thap is a southwestern province known to many people through the poem "Thap Muoi is the most beautiful lotus flower". If you are from Saigon, you can spend 2 days exploring. But from other provinces, it will take you more time to go all the beautiful places and delicious food in this country. From December to April is the time the land is sunny, suitable for outdoor activities.

Transportation in Dong Thap is quite affordable for a taxi, motorbike, motorbike taxi, ferry boat. You can rent motorbikes in Cao Lanh and Sa Dec cities for between US$5 to US$10 per day.

Ninh Binh Province

 

Ninh Binh

Less than 100 km from Hanoi, Ninh Binh inherits many beautiful landscapes suitable for those who have a passion to explore and selfie. The top beautiful places in Ninh Binh are Cave Mua, Van Long Lagoon, Tam Coc - Bich Dong, Trang An - Bai Dinh, Cuc Phuong Reserve which have spellbound many domestic and foreign tourists. 

If you visit Ninh Binh Province, you can take a boat to explore the cave system, take a lunch break in the cool foliage houses and enjoy popular traditional dishes.

The beauty of Simplicity

 

In the days nearly Lunar New Year, when the South is still full of golden sunlight, the North always has to face bone-chilling northeastern winds. Recalling a past period of the 60s - 70s and earlier, you see that life was very poor at that time, not everyone had enough warm clothes to wear. The simple cotton shirt was considered a dream outfit of the poor in the city. 

No matter how hard and difficult life was, everyone tried to save up for themselves and their loved ones to afford a new cotton shirt for Tet holiday. The poor wore cotton and denim. The richer people put on brocade and velvet ones, particularly luxurious velvet-colored blouses,

But no matter what fabric it was, the cotton shirt was still an art piece, bringing the feeling embodied in stitching and the cultural quintessence of the old Hanoi people. There was a time when it seemed that the tufted cotton shirt associated with the memories of the old Hanoi people was forgotten, because the flow of fashion has made people change their minds in dressing to keep pace with current trends of fashion. The image of the old cotton shirt only appears in a very few long-standing tailors in Ha Thanh land and Van Phuc silk village. 

In recent years, with a love for traditional values, the Vietnamese recall culture of the past, a number of tailors and designers have revived the tufted cotton shirt with a new look, bringing it to life, coming closer to the modern life and fashion world.

Spring Trip with Ao Dai

A collection of ao dai for both men and women with extremely graceful and elegant designs has just released. Traditional cultural motifs have made the collection create a strong impression. 

The collection focused on main colors of Tet such as red, yellow, green .. . along with golden dragon, crane, bird, and lion. The highlight of the collection is the meticulously printed and drawn patterns. 

This is not only considered as a creativity but also a special feature for Vietnamese ao dai to be more powerful and elegant.

The beauty of Son Doong Cave

The photo describes the beauty of Son Doong in the rainy season. Due to the weather conditions, you don't see the bright light coming from cave holes. Hang En is the third largest cave in the world, discovered and announced in 1994. There is a large lake with natural turquoise color. 

 

From the mouth of the cave, you have to go down to the bottom about 80 meters down with a rope. The road is steep, dark and slippery, taking you about 2 hours to travel. In Son Doong cave, the terrain is extremely diverse, you will see many narrow and slippery roads.

 

Some points, you have to wade through cold water, in the narrow gap just enough an outstretched arm, and moves in complete darkness, with the help of a flashlight. 

 

Son Doong is about 9 km long, 160 m wide and has a ceiling height of 200 m, large enough to accommodate a 40-storey building. The stalactite block is called the "Wedding Cake". In the cold weather, water pouring down from above makes the road slippery. The scene is very ghostly with misty mist like cave clouds. 

 

Son La In Spring

 

 

 

 

 Another year is coming around. It is the time for flower blooming throughout hills. Since the beginning of December, Moc Chau is covered with white color.

The picture describes a daily life of Hmong People, who are living in Moc Chau. Two Hmong girls carry flowers on their back under plum blossoms in Na Ka Village, a place local visitors call "Spring Paradise" in the middle of a mountain, about 16km from the town center of Moc Chau Farm.

 

Xuan Huong Lake

At present, Da Lat City in midst of cold weather, apricot blooming every corner; cherry trees fill the garden in Da Sar Commune, Lac Duong District on the hill Lang Biang Plateau, about 12 km from Da Lat City.

This is one of the photos "Da Lat in pink cherry blossom" by 9x photographer Tran Ngoc Anh who is working and living in Da Lat City.

If you take pain, you go into Da Sar Commune, you enjoy apricot trees planted side by side coffee gardens and tea hills. 

To get a right opportunity to visit Dalat City, you should have information from the local people for apricot blooming.
 

Cherry Blossom Dying Pink Dalat

 

At present, in the midst of cold weather, cherry flowers blossoms on a route in Lac Duong, the direction to Lang Biang and is about to blossom in romantic Dalat. 

If you take pains to ride a motorbike into Da Sak, you will enjoy cherry bloom in middle of coffee gardens and tea hills. 

Depending on the weather and soil, cherry flowers bloom soon or late in different places in Dalat. Thus, you should have the information from the local people to arrive in on the right time to enjoy the beauty of cherry flowers.  

 

Hoi An Ao Dai Collection

The fashion show in Hoi An Ancient Town took place for the first time on January 2 2021, in the archery area of ​​the Cau Bridge. This is one of the tourist activities of the project "Wake up Hoi An", organized by the city government and the business community, to attract tourists, restore tourism. 

The show is held at 17:30 every Saturday, with many different themes and performances. At the beginning of the program, artists performed traditional ao dai along with bicycles and tricycles around the old town area. This fashion in harmony with the ancient and quiet beauty of the city has created a new vitality for the old town, after the effects of epidemics and natural disasters.

 

 

 

 

Lonely Planet lists central Vietnam in top 10 Asia-Pacific destinations

 

The Middle Vietnam is proud as the sixth out of Lonely Planet's top 10 must-visit destinations in Asia-Pacific.

It is bookended by the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City and the historic environment of Hanoi Capital, and bring visitors a most diverse region as featured by the U.K. travel magazine. 

Hue's attractive cuisine embodies the city's imperial legacy, while south in Hoi An's well-known paths where showcase local dishes, including fragrant cao lau noodles. Seafood is well-known in neighbouring Danang, which is alongside the Han River, one of Vietnam's most charmful urban destination. 

Hue is the former imperial capital that ever witnessed the glories and falling of the Nguyen Dynasty, the last ruler to govern the country, is well-known for a food paradise.

Tuyen Lam Lake in Dalat

 

Compared with Dalat in 10 years ago, Dalat and neighbouring areas nowadays lose a lot of immense space. The encroachment of green houses and houses built in the city inner to the suburb have tore up the deserted ground. Spaces that is believed to unable to afford are disappeared and vanished.

If you visit Dalat now, you can not find wild sunflowers within it, just empty valleys inside the city. If you want to see wild sunflowers, just go to outside of Dalat. 

Dalat in Apricot Season

 

If you visit the surroundings of Dalat City at this time, you would see the apricot blooms in the suburbs and it will fade in 3 or 4 weeks if there is no rain. After New Year, it is the best time to visit there to admire the beauty of nature.  

Going to Dalat, you should go to Lac Duong District, Lang Biang foothills, Da Nhim Commune.These are places with higher elevation than Dalat City.

OneHhundred-Year-Old Church

 

 

 

 

Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the one-hundred-year-old churches in Vietnam. Nesting in the commercial hub in Ho Chi Minh City provides services for holidays. It was constructed in 1877 - 1880 and is a must visit for tourists. 

 

One of the characteristics of this church is all materials imported from France, in which red orange bricks retain the color to the present. Two sharp peaks were build in 1984, once the highest place in the city at that time. Visitors took these peaks as landmark to guess the direction to downtown.  

Sapa Organized a Marathon Run.

 

The mountain marathon run attracted thousands of professionals and enthusiasts to participate in. Part of the attraction is the landscape of Sapa in cherry blossoms and primitive forests. 

More than 2,000 runners joined the race in Sapa from the night of 20 to 22 November, 2020, with different distance of 10km, 21km, 42km and so on. Particularly, a 100 km race started at 9 pm on November 20, taking place overnight through the high mountains. The participants ran enjoying a sea of clouds in early morning. 

Discover the Surrounding of Dalat

 

Don Duong District nests near Dalat City. About 40 km from Dalat City to Dran, you will easily admire vegetable terraced valleys with automatically watering system designed by farmers in Dalat.

Heart-Shaped Island Lan Ha

 It is an island formed by a block of rocks covered with green trees and taking a heart-shape, about 160 meters wide and around 110 meter in length. The highest pick is about 16 meters from the sea level. 

It is an island Lan Ha, Hai Phong Province. Just below the tail of the island, you find a sandy beach with 10 meters wide and 50 meters long, connecting another island as you see in the photo. 

 

Ao Dai Collection

 

 

 

The show of the Ao Dai Collection took place in December of 2020. It inspires the sincere and unique feeling when a girl is coming to her husband's home. The collection figures different patterns, colors. materials, and sewing technique.  

Moc Chau in Plum Season

 

 

 

At this time, Moc Chau begin to wear the white colour of the plum blossoms. If you visit Moc Chau right now, you will see plum trees scattering along two sides of road leading up to hills or valleys around the town.

 

Plum blossoms is a typical characteristics of the plateau with fragile beauty. Taking a pain, you go deeply into villages, you will find the plum blossoms more romantic and wild because the tourism has not exploited it yet.  

 

 

Resort in Da Lat City

 

 

 

Resort in Da Lat

 

On Lam Tuyen Lake, a resort was built to inspire the image of a village in Switzerland or France. The Resort is located in the side of Tuyen Lam lake. This place is considered as the miniature Switzerland in Da Lat. 

 

In recent times, this resort has featured in many tourist promotion magazines in Lam Dong province, as well as on social networks thanks to its romantic space. 

 

This place is the highlight of the western-styled architecture of Da Lat city. This architecture is combined art and nature, an advantage of a city in mountainous region.

 

 

Weekend in the Nature of Trang An

 

 

 

If you don't have any plan for this weekend, this image help you decide your tourist destination with your friends or family. 

 

Trang An is a must-visit spot where you would capture the beauty of nature. Taking a boat or a kayak along Sao Kheu River to enjoy Trinh Temple, Toi Cave, Sang Cave, Tran Temple, Quy Hau Cave and a lot of others.