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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)

Photo: halong.vnn.vn. VietNamNet Bridge – With the theme “Ha Long – Towards a world natural wonder”, the Ha Long Tourism Festival 2008 will be organized as an undersea and roadshow carnival, from April 26 to May 1. Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quang Ninh province, Nhu Thi Hong Lien, revealed that the opening ceremony of the Ha Long Tourism Festival 2008 is arranged meticulously, with a floating stage on the sea and a procession of ship and barge models....

National Tourism Year opens in Can Tho Vu The Binh, Head of the Travel Agency, said the number of international and domestic visitors to the Mekong Delta is very modest. Even Korean and Japanese visitors, who account for the highest numbers of foreign tourists to Vietnam, don’t know about the advantages of this region yet. Binh said the Mekong Delta needs diversity of tourism products to attract a variety of tourists. At present, 13 Mekong Delta provinces offer similar tours...

Ostrich ride One weekends, students from HCM City decided to travel to Nha Trang. They didn’t buy a tour, but organized the trip themselves. There are many destinations in Nha Trang: going to Hon Mun to see coral, Tri Nguyen to discover the water world, to Hon Tam to play underwater sports or to the five southern islands of Nha Trang, etc.; as long as the trip cost less than VND250,000/person. As a student of the Tourism Faculty of the HCM City-based Hung Vuong University,...

Luxury cruise arrives in Hai Phong Silver Sea cruise anchored at Dinh Vu port, northern Hai Phong City on February 21, carrying 650 foreign tourists from European countries on board. This is Silver Sea’s first trip to Vietnam of the total four trips planned for this year. In order to develop sea tourism, Hai Phong City plans to build an international tourism port. Int’l windsurfing held in Phan Thiet An annual windsurfing tournament was kicked off at the...

VietNamNet Bridge – Villagers in Hoa Binh Province are using the Internet to lure tourists and spread the word about their goods. In searching for a vacation destination, Korean tourist Kim Min-seung turned to the same source he may have for movie times or news: the internet, and found himself in Vietnam. Kim said his group of ten discovered the country’s virgin landscape, (particularly the hand-made brocade of Mai Chau District in Hoa Binh Province, about 120km north-west...

VietNamNet Bridge – The Nha Trang Oceanographic Museum located inside the Institute of Oceanography (01 Cau Da, Nha Trang City) is a prime destination for tourists. The museum houses a diverse collection of ocean creatures and conducts marine research. Since its establishment in 1923, the Institute of Oceanography has collected and preserved more than 20,000 specimens and more than 4,000 sea and freshwater species. The institute also has a number of live specimens in...