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New culinary and entertainment programs for children[Code: 3316]

VietNamNet Bridge – Hotels, restaurants and tourist sites in HCMC are preparing culinary and entertainment programs to serve little revelers on International Children’s Day on June 1. * Grand Hotel (8 Dong Khoi Street, District 1, tel: 3824 5771) A buffet called “Angel’s party night”, featuring meals for children together with cakes, drinks and fruits, will take place at the hotel’s Chez-Nous Restaurant from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on June 1. There will be...

Ha Long Bay rolls in NewOpenWorld poll[Code: 3315]

VietNamNet Bridge - Ha Long Bay was declared one of the 25 most wonderful seascapes in the world on the website of NewOpenWorld on May 25. The bay joins Cox’s Bazaar beach of Bangladesh, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Entering the second phase of the NewOpenWorld’s poll of the seven new world natural wonders are 261 sites. They are divided into seven groups: Group A for extensive natural landscapes; Group B for islands; Group C for mountains...

Jetstar Pacific cancels Hanoi-Can Tho flights[Code: 3314]

VietNamNet Bridge – The low-cost airline Jetstar Pacific on May 26 announced it would stop offering Hanoi-Can Tho flights as of June 1. The airline said it will close this air route to focus on more lucrative routes, for example Hanoi-Da Nang, Hanoi-HCM City, HCM City-Da Nang. The firm will add one more flight per week on these routes. Other routes, HCM City to Hue, Vinh and Hai Phong and Hanoi-Nha Trang, will still have one flight per day. Meanwhile, Vietnam...

Southern Fruit Festival 2009 opens in HCM City[Code: 3313]

VietNamNet Bridge – The festival opened at the HCM City-based Suoi Tien tourist site, with many new features. VietNamNet introduces the event in photos: Southern fruit festival to feature strange fruits LH-HS

A fisherman’s dream of building an eco-tourist site[Code: 3312]

VietNamNet Bridge – Duong Van Vi, a 40-year-old fisherman, has opened a restaurant on Binh Thuan’s Phu Quy Island, to provide tourists to the coastal city with an ideal venue for enjoying seafood while admiring the surrounding scenery. Affectionately known by locals as “a fisherman doing tourism,” Vi smiled gently and said “my homeland is very poor and is experiencing difficult traffic conditions, but it would be a shame not to develop its tourism potential. I would...

Journeys to past and present attractions in central Vietnam[Code: 3311]

VietNamNet Bridge – The luxurious Nam Hai resort has introduced summer packages for family members which combine visits to past and present cultural attractions in Central Vietnam with sport and leisure activities. The day begins in the early morning with rowing a basket fishing boat just off shore, either to fish or just for the experience of being on the water and to learn how to steer the boat forward. On another part of the tour in Quang Nam Province, family members...

Inbound travel procedures to be made easier[Code: 3310]

Many local hotels behind the times Vietnam’s tourism authority is planning to allow foreign travelers to get visas at international border gates to attract more international visitors to the country. Vu The Binh, head of the travel department of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, told the Daily that foreign tourists would be able to obtain visas at international border gates in the coming months. However, the customs department needs well-prepared processes as...

City to license foreign travel offices in June[Code: 3309]

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCMC Department of Tourism will begin licensing foreign travel firms to open representative offices in the city and renew expired licenses for foreign travel offices next month. La Quoc Khanh, deputy director of the city’s Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism, told the Daily that the department would begin taking applications from foreign travel companies on June 1 after a long wait due to the absence of detailed guidelines for the Tourism Law....

High income vacationers choosing to spending holidays at domestic resorts[Code: 3308]

VietNamNet Bridge – Travel agents report a new trend: many high income Vietnamese vacationers are choosing holidays at ‘international standard’ resorts in Vietnam instead of going abroad on tours. Such bookings now account for 20% of the clientele of some travel firms. Worn out from hard work, such vacationers prefer to holiday in places where they can really relax, instead of going on tours which make them more tired. Cong says that in...

Moc Chau in bloom[Code: 3307]

The lush rolling hills and tranquil waters surrounding Moc Chau. VietNamNet Bridge - The town of Moc Chau in northern Son La Province is one of gentle beauty and rolling green hills. The fresh, cool air in Moc Chau is one of the main attractions of the area. The town’s highland location is cool in the summer, brisk in autumn, cold in the winter, and warm in spring. Just before the summer season is when the entire area bursts with ripe plums and peach blossoms. Most visitors...

Domestic travel up despite downturn[Code: 3306]

VietNamNet Bridge – Travel industry executives attribute a fall in the number of foreign tourists in large part to the global economic crisis rather than the swine flu scare. They also add that domestic travel has picked up some of the slack, riding on a nationwide tourism promotion campaign that has offered significant service discounts. While the number of foreigners visiting the ancient town of Hoi An has dropped by 20 per cent so far this year, that of visitors from...

Lake of lost love[Code: 3305]

The entrance to the Coc Mountain Lake recreation area, which boasts some 90 islands. VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese know the famous song Huyen thoai Ho Nui Coc, Legend of Coc Mountain Lake, by Pho Duc Phuong. Sadly, Cong’s family followed them and took Cong back. Coc died of a broken heart and his love was so strong that he became a mountain, now known as Coc Mountain. Then Cong cried so long and hard that her tears formed the nearby Cong River, where she also died. In...

Fishman’s paradise[Code: 3304]

A traveler shows off his first catch VietNamNet Bridge - Each weekend, eager visitors swarm the Mekong Delta’s U Minh Thuong National Park in hopes of catching a bounty of fresh fish. The boat driver finally succeeds in freeing the vessel and the group carries on their way. Everyone here at U Minh Thuong (Upper U Minh) National Park is eager to fish. “We come together to U Minh Thuong to fish for entertainment on the weekend after a hard working week in the city,”...

Aviation body okays summer schedule for 44 int’l carriers[Code: 3303]

Forty-four international airlines will operate services, flying mainly to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, with 33 carrying passengers and the remaining 11 carrying cargo or both passengers and cargo. In May and June Northwest Airlines and Qantas AirCargo are to begin their first flights to Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC. Vietnam Airlines will fly on 36 routes to 14 countries. Jetstar Pacific will fly on eight domestic destinations and increase the number of flights on the HCMC –...

My Son Sanctuary[Code: 3302]

VietNamNet Bridge – Around 70km from the central city of Da Nang, the world cultural heritage My Son Sanctuary in Quang Nam province, is located in a valley. My Son is one of the significant holy lands of the ancient Cham dynasty, between the 4th and 12th centuries. My Son Sanctuary is a large complex of religious relics that comprises more than 70 architectural works. They include temples and towers that connect to each other with complicated red brick designs....


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