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Farmers harvest pomelos in Bac Lieu. Luxuriant orchards full of juicy fruit can be found all over the Mekong Delta. VietNamNet Bridge - Those who have followed the Mekong Delta’s winding waters to the region’s farthest stretches agree that the journey is well worth it. Pham Nam Giang discovers the area’s hidden delights, both natural and man-made. Most tourists who visit the Mekong Delta make it no farther than My Tho, a day’s jaunt from HCM City, where they can...

Vietnam’s tourism industry could do more to cash in on travelling film fans VietNamNet Bridge – I’ll never forget how I rushed into the field of rape flowers, climbed the jagged cliffs of extinct volcanoes by the sea or walked through the Teddy Bear Museum in South Korea’s Jeju Island during my first visit. Over the past few years, millions of tourists from Japan, Taiwan, China and Vietnam have flocked to Jeju Island. I heard through the grapevine that the...

VietNamNet Bridge – Peter Thornley visited the School of Hotel and Tourism in downtown on Tuesday to give a cooking class to students as part of the New Zealand annual Wine and Food Festival, which will take place on Saturday. Hundreds of students gathered around the chef from New Zealand, who has 30 years of experience, to learn techniques and get some tips on how to cook beef and lamb dishes, which are very popular in New Zealand. Dang Quoc Hoa, vice director of the school,...

VietNamNet Bridge – The news that Vietnam has three sites near the top of the new seven natural world wonders list has made Vietnamese people very proud, but is it worth celebrating? Ha Long Bay (left), Fansipan Mountain (small photo, above) and Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (photo: halongfriends.com, vndaily.net) Seven natural world wonders is in the voting selection process and at this moment, Vietnam has three sites near the top of the rankings: Fansipan...

VietNamNet Bridge - Low-cost carrier Viva Macau and Macau.com have teamed up with Vietnamese tour operators to create a program to boost the number of Vietnamese tourists to Macau, a Las Vegas of Asia. In the program, TransViet, Saigontourist, Ben Thanh Tourist, Cho Lon Tourist, Fiditour, Hoan My, Vietravel and some other Ho Chi Minh City-based tourism companies are operating tours not expensive to Macau. A three-day and two-night visit to Macau is priced in the range of US$179-229...

Tourism kiosks from Vietnam, Binh Thuan and businesses such as Hoang Ngoc Resort and Sea Lion Resort will promote tourism, culture, youth travel, eco-tourism, adventure tourism, sea tourism and introduce their image and potential to international markets, especially European and German markets. Binh Thuan’s tourism strategy focuses on luxury tourists. The province is now improving the quality of tourism products, ensuring a fresh natural, training skilled human resources and investing in...

Granite stones shaped into different figures at Nui Chua Natural Reserve. You may wonder how thousands of stones of various shapes and sizes came to be nestled in mountain creeks and perched on the top, sides and base of the mountains and hills in the Reserve, which covers an area of nearly 30,000 hectares on the coast of the central province. The stones look as though they have been hand-crafted into figures which resemble columns of a house, animals and stylized phalluses...

With the subtitle “Mekong Delta’s Waterways and Countryside”, the Mekong-Can Tho National Tourism Year will last until the end of 2008 and feature more than 50 diverse events, giving the delta region a golden opportunity to showcase its tourism and economic potential, history, customs, and traditional festivals. (Source: SGGP)