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There will be three flights per week from Hanoi to Dong Hoi and vice versa on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Flights from Hanoi will take off at 8.30am and at 10.40am from Dong Hoi. The total flying time is 1.30 hours. local air route of Vietnam Airlines. The Ministry of Transportation and the Quang Binh provincial People’s Committee recently inaugurated Dong Hoi Airport after nearly four years of construction. Dong Hoi Airport can serve Airbus A-321, ATR-72 and 500,000...

VietNamNet Bridge – Celebrity chefs will arrive in HCM City to show off their cooking skills at a special four-day Masters of Food&Wine Sai Gon event at Park Hyatt Sai Gon today. The five chefs include Kiyomi Mikuni, Japan’s leading French chef from Hotel de Mikuni, Tokyo, Greg Doyle and Grant King from Pier Restaurant, at the top of Sydney’s dining list for the past 15 years, Ron Blaauw from Palazzo, Amsterdam and Gottfried Schuetzenberger of Grand Hyatt Singapore, who...

Ha Long Bay VietNamNet Bridge – On the ranking list of the top 77 vote-getting natural wonders on website www.new7wonder.com , Vietnam ’s Ha Long Bay has fallen to 16 th position, its fourth consecutive drop in the last month. If Ha Long drops out of the top 21 prior to December 31, 2008 it will be ousted from the poll. ). The Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is calling for Vietnamese and international tourists to...

VietNamNet Bridge – Contrary to all predictions, the number of tourists on the September 2 holiday did not see decreases due to the high inflation. However, travel firms complained that travellers booked tours late, just before the holiday, which forced them to refuse to provide services. Van Phu Nghia, a sales staff at Ben Thanh Tourist, said that the hotel room rate has been raised by 20%, while meal prices have increased by 15%. However, the sharpest...

VietNamNet Bridge - Hoa Binh, which means “peace” in Vietnamese, is a northwestern mountainous province five hours by car from Hanoi. The province is endowed with beautiful landscapes and a stunning. chain of mountains that stretch to the horizon. The region also features fanciful grottoes, rocky streams and impressive waterfalls that look like a fairyland on earth. The first must-see attraction is the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant. Located on the gigantic Da River, this hydro-electric...

VietNamNet Bridge – The wedding season is approaching and some tour operators in HCMC are promoting special honeymoon tours. Listed below are some romantic honeymoon vacations offered by Ben Thanh Tourist in central and northern Vietnam. Discover the charming ancient city of Hoi An with its small streets and traditional craft villages where one can buy colorful lanterns made by artistants of the ancient city. Just 4 km away is the beautiful beach of Cua Dai. The Nha Trang tour...

Da Lat looks for harmony between nature and development The dizzying rate of urbanisation in Da Lat, a resort city in the south central region founded by the French, has tarnished its natural beauty, sparking concern among architects and local residents. Architects from HCM City’s Architecture University, Vietnam’s Association of Architects and the Institute of Urban Planning sat down with policymakers yesterday at a conference held in the city to discuss how to preserve the...

Tourists return to flood-hit Sa Pa The resort town of Sa Pa in the northern mountains is again attracting local and foreign tourists just a week after flash floods devastated the region. The Sa Pa Culture and Information Division said tourists started to return last weekend though the number is, admittedly, just 30 to 40 per cent of the pre-flood average. Foreign tour agencies flock to City Around 210 exhibitors have registered to take part in the fourth international Travel...