Southern Fairy Village

If you go to Can Tho City on the weekend, Southern fairy village or Cantho Resort Ecolodge is a must-have visit. This is an eco-tourism area with architectural style like the ancient Nam Bo village, built with traditional materials.

You can choose one of the separate bungalows, with many large rooms. The construction, based on the natural factors, brings an enjoyable experience to the resort.

"Blue Eyes" Film Effect Makes Hue as an Interesting Film Studio.

The tourist industry in Thua Thien - Hue has taken advantage of the film effect "Blue Eyes" to develop Hue as a film studio to attract tourists, in addition to cultural heritage and gastronomy.

Regarding the movie "Blue Eyes" the film crew initially hesitated to select Hue as film backgrounds. After extended visits, they recognized Hue has many romantic, traditional, and rustic places suitable for the scenario of the film. 

Take an example, Vong Dong tree in the movie "Blue Eyes" has become such an attractive location for photographers that many film crews have chosen Hue as a backdrop.

Currently, many local companies organize tours to visit locations in this movie to promote more cultural tourist destinations. Around the school Do Do, retaining the front of the warehouse of a cooperative, keeping the name of a school for tourists to take photos are the main activities of the local authorities.

Designer Lien Huong's Ao Dai Collection

Grass, flowers, swallows' wings and spring butterflies are designed harmoniously on dozens of bright pink and red dresses in Spring collection of designer Lien Huong, newly introduced by Miss Tieu Vy through an album of photos full of traditional touch.

Not too picky or disruptive in style and materials, but the collection of spring dresses is still eye-catching thanks to the mixture of fresh, youthful and vibrant colours in accordance with the theme with Tet. 

With pink and red tones as the main theme, the collection is decorated with flowers bearing strong artistic paintings on the soft silk fabric background.

In addition to "the very Vietnamese" spring flowers such as peaches, apricot, and yellow daisies, the spring collection also brings a fresh touch when adding spring flowers in Western countries such as tulips. Highlights on the spring flowers are butterflies, swallows or nightingales.

"I almost keep the classic form of the ao dai in this collection to respect the traditional value of Vietnam in the traditional new year." said designer Lien Huong.

Hoi An amid COVID-19 Scare

You might be curious about how Hoi An Ancient Town is in terms of tourism. In recent weeks, many tours from Asian countries have cancelled, that causes Hoi An to lose a great number of visitors from China, Korea and Japan. Coming to Hoi An at present mainly are tourists from European nations.

For many years, the centre of the ancient town has always been a hot spot for a number of tourists pouring into in the peak season. But what is happening in Hoi An right now shows an image of very different Hoi An.

Many dwellers exclaimed that it was as quiet and calm as 10 or 20 years ago. European Tourists occupy for a majority.   

Ao Dai Collection "Far-Eastern Pearl"

Designer Duc Vincie has just launched a collection of ao dai (long dress) for Tet (the Lunar New Year of 2020). On the above photo, models posed inside the zoo and Botanical Gardens.

The collection is inspired by the 70's ao dai with spring flower motifs and traditional form. The designer researched data and movies to create this collection.  "I imagine Saigon in the 1970s, in the year-end days, were full of young women in ao dai, cycling or walking leisurely," he said. 

Cherry Flowers Bloom Pink in Mang Den Forest

Dressed in Hanbok clothing, under the cherry blossom canopy, visitors transform into Korean teenagers

In the cold weather at the end of the year, cherry blooms, creating striking pink among the greenery of Mang Den Forest.  

As a small town in Kon Plong District, Kon Tum Province, Mang Den has mild weather all year round. the average temperature from 16-22 degrees. Peach blossom has been a charm in Mang Den for years. Coming to Mang Den, you will enjoy delicious dishes such as grilled chickens with rice, chilly hot pot to dispel the cold. At night, you will watch starry sky hanging on shimmering, fanciful pine.

Not only that, these days all over the town roads, the villages and tourist areas such as Dakke Lake, Pa Sy Waterfall, E Ban Farm, cherry blossoms are showing off to captivate visitors.

The Countryside Painting Ta Pa Seen From Above

By the end of November, green and yellow fields appear like a painting in the early shining Ta Pa. This tourist destination attracts visitors all year round, especially the ripe rice season in August and November every year. The main roads which split the Ta Pa fields look like a long silk thread when viewed from above, running to the end of Soai Check Lake.

Ta Pa is in the best season when the rice fields are ripe. You take a leisurely drive in the early morning on the small road, through the fields to take photos or fly the drone, you will capture the beautiful scenery like the above photo.  

Ma Pi Leng

Ma Pi Leng Pass is about 20km long with the height of about 1,400m, located in the Dong Van Rocky Plateau and seen as a period legend. It has been hailed at the first Vietnamese hill pass. The high mountains and rocks create a unique system of canyons beside blue rivers that are creeping through. Floating clouds make the scenery more real or false. 

The Vietnam Heritage 2019 award winning photo

The Vietnam Heritage Photo Contest 2019 includes topics of nature, tangible and intangible culture, environment, tourism ...

The main message of Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2019 aims to continue to call for the attention of the domestic and foreign communities to discover and share the value of Vietnam's natural and cultural heritage. It includes searching for artworks - stories of heritage with images which propagate and introduce nature, history and culture on Vietnam Heritage, organizing exhibitions of the best works from the contests at the centres of tourism, museums, schools, serving tourist communities and young people.

After a period of launching, the Vietnam Heritage Photo Contest received 3075 photo works among the submission of over 5000 pieces, including single and set photos of 413 authors from 54 cities and provinces across Vietnam. 

Sapa in Cherry Blossom

In the cold weather at the end of year, cherry blossom creates a striking pink among the green of tea hill, mountains and upland forests.

Around December to January, cherry and apricot trees in O Long Tea Hill, near Sapa, blossom, signaling the coming of spring. Cherry trees are planted alternatively, along a path leading to tea hills. This is also the characteristic of Sapa compared to cherry seasons in other localities such as Dalat. The pink of cherry and apricot is a highlight on the green picture of mountains and forests.

O Long Tea Hill has been known for more than one year, thanks to photos of flowering seasons shared by photographers

Green "Queen" Flower Field

About 150,000 green "Queen" Flower fields in suburban gardens in a blooming season create a landscape like the European one. In the last days of a year, these fields become a "virtual living" place where thousands of visitors come to take selfies. Flowers usually bloom in green int the morning and turn purple in the afternoon. Thus, many confuse this flower with Lavander in Europe. It takes about three months from planting to blooming. Flowering remains for two months.

The owner of the garden has set up miniatures for visitors to take photos including a house set in the middle of a purple garden and a brown wooden house, reminiscent of English or French countrysides.  

Photo of family love

 

This is one of the family love photos at the Vietnam Women's Museum. It conveys private messages about happiness, love and family sharing. Making and covering sticky rice cakes on days prior to the Lunar Year is a memory that remains in any Vietnamese, though living in or out of the country. 

The photo captures vivid, idyllic moments of warm, everyday life, moments of reunion, clearly reflecting kindness. touching love of family members. 

Hue known for a poetic place

Hue is famous as a poetic area, however, so far visitors have come to enjoy the ancient capital, music, painting, architecture and gastronomy. Where is Hue's literature located in the system of tourist products?

This place still has the footprint of Vietnam's great poets. This place, a poetic museum, showcases a gallery of works and documents of poetry in Hue. Also, this is for poets to interact with readers, performing art installation, performing poems, and organize extra-curriculum lessons for students.

Nowadays, some companies have designed 5-day tours with all kind of things: visiting mausoleum, temples, gardens and lagoons. 

Isle Nhat Tu Son

There is a special place in Phu Yen Province, named "the yellow flowers on the green grass" where you can make a way through turquoise waves to walk from the mainland to the isle, experiencing the "ocean walking" path to isle Nhat Tu Son.

This interesting floating isle in the middle of the sea is a magnificent island of Phu Yen Province, providing the pristine experiences associated with relaxation. It has a special name Nhat Tu Son as bearing the appearance of the character "first" in Chinese. It looks like handwriting drawn by nature in the middle of the blue sea.

There are 2 ways to experience the island: going around the island or to the top of it. If travelling around, you take about one hour to explore, or climb to its top takes about 45 minutes to walk all four main directions of the isle, admiring the beauty of thousands of lobster cages and fishing village.

In addition to experiencing the walking path through the sea, you also explore the island by canoe, visit the Island's Zoo and Botanical Garden, learn about the people's livelihood activities through the profession of raking and farming lobsters, prying live oysters at low tide.

Houses in clouds

 

If you visit Y Ty, a highland commune in Lao Cai Province, between September and April, especially in the early morning or late evening, Y Ty allows you touch and walk in the cloud. In these days, the temperatures drop to below 5 degrees of Celcius as clouds swoop down over valleys and villages. 

The area is known for its winding roads, tranquil valleys, magnificent terraces and small and simple stilt houses of the ethnic people. Choan Then is an old village founded over 300 years ago. Now it accommodates around 50 households of Ha Nhi ethnic minority group. 

You won't find any deluxe hotels, resorts in this region. Instead, you check out some homestays at the cost of $3, including electricity, tap water, and wifi. If homestays are run out, you may stay at the border station in Y Ty.   

My homeland Ben Tre

"My homeland Ben Tre" is one of the winning photo collection paints the panorama socio-cultural life, economic strength of Ben Tre Province, especially products from trees and coconuts, the main speciality of Ben Tre Province. The photos show the beauty of the traditional professions, festival activities as well as daily life in this land. Also, the fact is that Ben Tre people are gentle and hospitable.

Coming to this land, you may participate in a coconut festival, a cultural event honouring coconut trees, products made from this tree, and workers in coconut-related industries.

Today's Hoi An

Plentiful visitors to Hoi An Ancient Town makes it a bustling place of business, gradually losing original features of its tourist attraction. The change in owners of old houses rapidly makes Hoi An disappear the native "breath".

On the evening of 12 December 2019, Hoi An was again named by the world as the Asian Cultural Destination at the 2019 World Tourism Award Ceremony. This is the 4th title this city received. Honoured with the 'rain' title, many managers in Hoi An city have had a concern about the fragile reputation.

According to a survey, out of more than 600 ancient houses, 155 are currently used for business. To serve the business, house owners have made a profit of the most area, narrowing down a living space to make more displace of goods. Also, 115 among 470 old houses have been changed owners, even some old houses transfer from 2 to 5 owners. Business people who bought houses have a general trend, taking space for goods display. As a result, many places of worship and spaces for daily life have regularly changed or removed. 

This leads to intangible cultural values associated with monuments such as beliefs, lifestyles, cultural activities to be sunk in silence.

If you liked to check in 'miniature' Sapa

The highland district of Binh Lieu, Quang Ninh Province, is considered as a 'miniature' Sapa, where you take favourites photos. It has mountains that meander like the backbone of a dinosaur.

You may not know about a very different Quang Ninh Province that tourists rarely visit. That is the highland district of Binh Lieu border. The weather and climate in Binh Lieu is the reason for people to call it Sapa. Summer temperatures here are usually 4 - 6 degrees lower than other places, and the snow falls in winter.

As a tourist, you should know Binh Lieu is always in beautiful seasons, but late autumn and early winter are still the most beautiful occasion. When zooming around, you will the small villages on the edge of a forest faintly shrouded in mist, looming the Dao and Thai girls fluttering in the brilliant ethnic traditional dress; or golden terraced fields, fragrant with glutinous rice. Any visitors will not forget taking beautiful photos of the northwestern mountainous region.

Coffee shop in Saigon

A coffee shop with green leafy walls, two indoor and outdoor areas and the space of a bar brings relaxing feelings. It is a favourite place of Ho Chi Minh City dwellers because of the feeling of relaxation from the greenery on the wall. The first impression is the large porch with leafy walls just outside the shop.

The green wall behind the shop is installed with automatic sprinklers and misting systems, making the air here cool, even without air conditioning. Its interior style combines modern and classic features. The menu includes coffees, smoothies, juices, alcohol drink and cakes.

What tourist activities are on the Dam River!

The submerged area near Tam Ky possesses a pristine landscape dotted local dinghies. Reed area, River Da area of Tam Thang commune has a natural area of about 18 hectares, with the beauty of many trees such as reeds, sedge, lotus and water-lily.

Dam River flows smoothly between the reeds and rushes. According to historical documents, Dam Rive and reed area relic with Ky Anh Tunnel is a revolution base area of eastern Tam Ky area during years of revolution. Reeds are mostly overgrown with the water of 1.6 meters deep, so during a war, only terrain-savvy people could use anti-pole boats to go along small ways, leading reed areas.

On rainy days on Dam River, the local people catch snails from 1:30 am to 6 am in the morning, in addition to their additional income from fishing, raising ducks and growing lotus.

What do you know about Dam River in terms of tourism? Recently, fishermen of the wharf of Dam River have joined a 12-member rowing cooperative group to serve you participating in fishing activities, removing fishing nets on the river and visiting fishing villages in this area.