Plum flowers blossom early due to the abnormal weather 05:04′ 18/01/2010 (GMT+7) VietNamNet Bridge – Plum flowers in Bac Ha, Lao Cai province, have blossomed nearly one month before the lunar New Year due to the warm weather, according to meteorological experts. In the last two weeks, Villages in Bac Ha have become covered in the white colored plum flowers. Travelers are flocking to Bac Ha to admire the blooms ahead of the usual Tet... 

A group of my Vietnamese friends from the US headed by Duong Quang Chan, a businessman, arrived in Ha Noi this week to start a New Year trans-Viet Nam tour and to seek out a suitable place to open a restaurant in the country. “My friends and I are excited to be back in our homeland which we left almost 30 years ago,” he said. Waterfall: A corner of Ban Gioc Waterfall, in the northern province of Cao Bang’s Trung Khanh District,... 

Soc Trang Province of Mekong Delta is famous for its ancient pagodas, orchids and ethnic cultural festivals, such as Chol Chnam Thmay and Oc Om Boc festivals, and especially for its popular boat tours on canals and rivers. vào chợ ngã 5 Thạnh Trị Chợ nổi Ngã 5  Read More →

Six to seven million of Vietnam’s 73 million population comprise an estimated 54 ethnic groups divided into dozens of subgroups some with a mere hundred or so members, giving Vietnam the richest and most complex ethnic make-up in the whole of southeast Asia. Ethnic minority groups with members numbering upwards of 500,000 include the Tay (Tho), Tai (Thai), Hmong (Meo or Miao), Muong (Mol) and Nung. Other large tribes (over 250,000) include the... 

Famous traditional handicraft villages around Vietnam like Bat trang, Van Phuc, Dong Ky, … Dong Ho is a small village in Thuan Thanh, Bac Ninh province  Read More →

The next day I wanted to ride up to a hill station called Ba Na Hill station, in a basically a flat coastal landscape this was around  1250m high so it would be a good climb if it was easy to find. First I rode to Danang then asked ‘Bow Nyoo’ (how much) Kilomete Ba Na, this worked surprisingly well, they told me turn left in 5km, after about 4km I asked again and they pointed to the actual road which is always a bonus. Ba Na was about 40km outside...