Thứ Hai, 31 tháng 3, 2014

Five Vietnamese tourist destinations classified as among the most attractive in Southeast Asia


Of 19 most appealing tourist attractions in Southeast Asia chosen and ranked by Huffington post- the second leading online newspaper in America, five destinations are in Vietnam, namely, Mui Ne Sand Dunes, Sa Pa, Mekong River Delta, Phu Quoc Island and Cu Chi Tunnel.
     1. Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam
Almost everyone agrees that Phu Quoc will become the next hot tourist destination but luckily that the perfect beaches here are almost empty. Tourists can rent a motorbike to go around and explore the beauty here. Huffington post even emphasizes that Hurry up, before other people discover the secret”
2.Mui Ne Sand Dunes, Vietnam

Mui Ne Sand Dunes (so called Flying Sand Dunes) is one of the longest and largest sand areas. The main attraction of Mui Ne Sand Dunes is said to be on the way to Mui Ne, opposite the Fairy Stream
    3. Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
Traveling around Mekong River Delta is widely accepted the most interesting tours in Vietnam. In addition to visiting vast fruit gardens, enjoying folk music and traditional specialties of the South, tourists have the opportunity to see floating markets – a typical feature of the Southwest full of rivers. Unlike Thailand’s’ artificial floating markets which are created to serve tourists, their counterparts in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam were long established for goods trading of local people.
4 4. Sapa, Vietnam
Sapa is a well-known destination of Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. It has many secrets of nature. The mountains and hills with vastly green forests form a well-structured, pretty and romantic picture of the Vietnamese Northwest landscape.
5 5. Cu Chi Tunnel, Vietnam
Cu Chi Tunnel is an underground system of defense located in Cu Chi District, 70 km northwest from Ho Chi Minh city. The system includes clinics, bedrooms, kitchens, storage, working rooms, underground trenches. It was built on the area long called “iron soil” at the end of Ho Chi Minh Trail.

19 Tourist Attractions are:
      1. Pai, Thailand
2.      Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam
3.      Bagan, Myanmar
4.      Mui Ne Sand Dunes, Vietnam
5.      Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar
6.      Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
7.      Ngwe Saung Beach, Myanmar
8.      The Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
9.      Sapa, Vietnam
10. The Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
11. The White Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand
12. Luang Prabang, Laos
13. Kep, Cambodia
14. Mae Sot, Thailand
15. Angkor Wat, Cambodia
16. Inle Lake, Myanmar
17. Ko Lanta, Thailand
18. Cu Chi Tunnel, Vietnam
19.Chiang Dao, Thailand

Thứ Sáu, 28 tháng 3, 2014

The biggest Vietnamese Museum of old arms in Vung Tau


With 500 mannequins dressed in military uniforms from all around the world and thousands of rare arms, this museum is considered worth seeing by Vietnamese people
If light house, night market, Sau stretch are familiar tourist places in Vung Tau, Museum of old arms is quite strange to many visitors including native residents  because not many people think that a city having strength to develop seaside tourism can own a strange and unique treasure like that.
Following the winding steep leading to the well-known light house of Vung Tau city, tourists will be overwhelmed before a house that looks like a new castle. There locates the Museum of old arms ( or Worldwide Arms Museum) opened at the bigining of 2012 and gained Guiness award for The biggest Private Museum of old arms in Vietnam.
Lying on high hill and being 50m high from sea surface, museum is really a nice position to view the whole city. The first impression is that this place has a large yard with walls surrounding sustainably and a classical European watchtower. Besides fortresses laid on surrounding wall, around the yard is dozens of turrets turning their barrels toward the sea. It’s enough to make visitors feel like they are sightseeing an ancient architecture in Europe.
Going inside, whether you love exploring museum or you  are just simply curious with old arms stock, you still can’t bear looking at every relicts showed here. With the size of 300m2, people can also see Museum of military uniforms along with weapons of many countries in the world such as Japan, China, Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Russia, …from century to century.
To make visitors figure out more clearly about the army history of many countries in the world, Museum’s space is divided into rooms with separate status in order of time. Room 1 is the area for period from acient times to Middle Ages with the Viking  warriors, Spartan, Chinese soldiers through the age, samurai and shogun of Japan, Roman army, Hoplite army,…Especially there are a lot of swords and guns of Muong people (Vietnam) in 19th century.
Room 2 is area belonging to British Army in modern times with the postman, the trumpet signals, cavalry, navy, …On the same floor but in room 3 is exhibiting space for guns of British, French, Germany, Holland Army…in century 17-19 such as pistols, rifles, muskets…
Room 4 is where visitors can enjoy the military equipments of European countries in Modern times. Even tourists can see a number of weapons from Russia and Britain in this Museum.
The journey with few hours to visit arms Museum seems to be boring and stiff but really interesting when taking tourists out from surprise to surprise. That’s when you discover culture of each country according to several types of arms with exquisitely  carved images.
Not only impressed by the diversity and variety, those kinds of arms in the Museum bring about interesting lessons through historical stories translated specifically into Vietnamese and English. If people do not like long  historical stories, certainly when you come here, you will find passion and love on this subject.
As a highlight in Vung Tau’ tourist picture, this private Museum recently suffers conflicts about ownership, so it is temporarily closed, and this leaves regrets for visitors.

Thứ Tư, 26 tháng 3, 2014

10 tasty dishes you should try when visiting Da Lat


Coming to Da Lat, in addition to many famous landscapes such as Love valley, Flower Garden or Lang Biang Highland, enjoying mountainous food is also a very memorable experience.
1.      Grilled spring rolls
Unlike fried sour spring rolls, Da Lat grilled rolls when being eaten is usally rolled with lettuce, vegetable, banana,.. and dipped in very unique sauce. Thanks to this, the fatty flavor combined with fresh taste of vegetable seems to be more attractive. The two small restaurants serving this dishes lying on Phan Dinh Phung road and Bui Thi Xuan road are introduced for you to enjoy this food.
2.      Beef noodle at Anh Sang village
Beef noodle is considered specialty of Hue City but when visiting Anh Sang Village, by Xuan Huong lake of Da Lat, you can still enjoy beef noodle with flavour not inferior or maybe just a bit variation put in this dishes to suit the taste of people living in the cold plateau. Beef noodle here isn’t made with split water spinach but  shredded lettuce, bean sprouts and banana flower. It’s up to visitors’ taste, he can order lean pork, frozen pork or cartilaginous pork.
3.      Wet cake with chicken
The unique combination between wet cake and chicken caught the curiousity of many tourists visiting Da Lat. Then, when they tried it, every one all got excited about strange but apealling flavour of this dishes. There is soft taste of the cake as well as the sweet smell of chicken. To enjoy it, let’s find the way to the wet cake restaurant on Tang Bat Ho street, near Da Lat market.
4.      Grilled Trang cake
Among the delicacies in Da Lat, what is best known by tourists may probably be Trang cake baked with eggs. On charcoal fire, onion, quail eggs, ground pork, fried small fish are respectively spread out on the delicate Trang cake. After a few minute, covering the whole cake is yellow, it is dipped in spicy chili sauce and makes people feel so excited. The place selling the most delicious dishes is on Nguyen Van Troi street, opened from 2pm to 10pm.
5.      Xap Xap
It may sound strange but still be a very familiar dishes because it is quite like dried beef salad in Ha Noi and in Sai Gon. Main ingredients of Xap Xap are fibro-papaya, beef lung or pork liver, peanut, sweet and sour sauce….You can stroll over Xuan Huong lake and then stop at a small restaurant by the lake to enjoy this dishes.
6.      Beo cake
Beo cake of Da Lat is mixed with a little bit flour so it becomes purer and a bit tough. Whereas, shrimp sauce is quite solid with eye-catching orange and attractively fresh flavour. A capacity usually includes 4 small bowls of cake and has affordable price. Address of this dishes is the small restaurant on Phan Dinh Phung road near Hong Hung gas station serving from 11:00a.m to 20:00pm every day.
7.      Grilled meat with corn
The way of rolling ground corn mixed with spicy in trang cake and then frying until it turns into yellow has made a sweet grilled meat bring its own flavour of  Da Lat. When being eaten, grilled meat is rolled in again with trang cake, cucumber, jicama, carrot,…and vegetable then dipped into a bowl of broth made from peanut sauce. You can find this dishes in a small restaurant near Nguyen Trai primary school or Nguyen Cong Tru street.
8.      Bread with sauce
Eaten with bread is a bowl of sauce made from bone water in fatty  greasy scum and with tiny meatballs, added a little chopped green onion. However, when being eaten, it tastes fresh but not fat. There are three popular ways to enjoy it. First is tearing bread into small pieces then putting it in the sauce bowl. Second way is  putting the whole bread into the bowl or inserting meatballs into the middle of the bread. In addition to many restaurants near school gate, market gate, you can find the way to Tran Nhat Duat- Hoang Dieu  fork to feel the right taste of this dishes.
9.      Banh Canh
Banh Canh is available in many places but enjoying it in the cool climate of Da Lat brings about a very different feeling. You can see the harmonious colour in the bowl when there is combination between the white colour of soft tough fiber of cake and hot and yellow colour of grilled meat and chopped green onion. The most famous restaurants are Xuan An restaurant on Nha Chung street, Phan Rang on Tran Phu st. or Hai Ba Trung st.
10.  Strawberry ice scream
Strawberry is a famous specialty in Da Lat, thus it is really a flaw if you come here without tasting ice-scream made from fresh strawberry, fresh milk, eggs and some other ingredients. Enjoying strawberry ice scream in the cool weather of Da Lat seems to make the dishes more interesting and attractive when the sweetness of strawberry is blended with the purity of ice scream and the atmosphere. If you do not believe, you can drop by Phan Dinh Phung street to experience it yourself.


Thứ Năm, 20 tháng 3, 2014

Vietnam in the list of the world’s cheapest hotel room’s price.

The well-known tourist site Hotels.com has published the list of cities which have the cheapest and most expensive hotel price in the world. The two big cities in Vietnam - Ha Noi and HCM city are also included in the top ten destinations which have the cheapest hotel room’s price. In 2013, the price of hotel room in Ha Noi was 65,2 USD per night which decreased by 20% in comparison with 2012 ( 81,9 USD). Visiting Ho Chi Minh City, visitors would pay 95,3 USD for a night of room hiring, with the reduction of 2% comparing with the previous year (98,6 USD).
The rest of this list is PhnomPenh (first place) with 55 USD for a night. Siem Reap ranks the third place with 70,2 USD for a night. The two cities of Thailand are Chiang Mai in the fourth place (76,9 USD) and Pattaya in the fifth place ( 76,9 USD). The left 4 cities separating their places from 6th to 10th are Riga (102 USD), Bangkok (102 USD), Krakow( 103,6 USD) and Vilnus (107 USD).

Besides, the most luxurious destination for hotel service in 2013 is Monte Carlo of Monaco with the average price up to 331,1 USD/ night. The runner up is Muscat city, Oman with 324,4 USD per night. City Rio de Janeiro of Brazil is ranked the fifth place with 279,2 USD, Moscow(259,2 USD), Boston (252,5 USD), Cannes (252,5 USD) and Geneva(250,8 USD).

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Thứ Tư, 19 tháng 3, 2014

Visit our Hanoi, a green city in the South East Asia

Come on with our Hanoi for today. Join with us to discover a city of thousand year culture. Start a day with Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum which is a great lively illustrator of the national unity, and then Uncle Ho's House and the One-pillar pagoda - one of the two most iconic temples in Vietnam. Next stop we visit Tran Quoc Pagoda
located on the bank of West Lake- the biggest lake in Hanoi. Then we move to Temple of Literature (or Văn Miếu in Vietnamese) which reveals the Hanoians’ spirit of study in the past, that is the place many, many Vietnamese students come there to pray for their examinations. Lunch will be served at a restaurant near by. For the afternoon, we begin with Museum ofEthnology where you can get a glance of different ethnic minorities living in Vietnam. Then, please to enjoy 1-hour cyclo around Hanoi's Old Quarter, you are promised to get a slow-speed view of a maze of labyrinthine streets as the daily life of the locals. You'll next be transferred to enjoy a water puppet which tells you a great traditional art performance of Vietnam that is so famous worldwide. Dinner and have coffee or visit some bar by yourself to discover the night life of Hanoian. It is really wonderful moment for you.

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Come on with our Hanoi for today


Come on with our Hanoi for today. Join with us to discover a city of thousand year culture. Start a day with Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum which is a great lively illustrator of the national unity, and then Uncle Ho's House and the One-pillar pagoda - one of the two most iconic temples in Vietnam. Next stop we visit Tran Quoc Pagoda located on the bank of West Lake- the biggest lake in Hanoi. Then we move to Temple of Literature (or Văn Miếu in Vietnamese) which reveals the Hanoians’ spirit of study in the past, that is the place many, many Vietnamese students come there to pray for their examinations. Lunch will be served at a restaurant near by. For the afternoon, we begin with Museum of Ethnology where you can get a glance of different ethnic minorities living in Vietnam. Then, please to enjoy 1-hour cyclo around Hanoi's Old Quarter, you are promised to get a slow-speed view of a maze of labyrinthine streets as the daily life of the locals. You'll next be transferred to enjoy a water puppet which tells you a great traditional art performance of Vietnam that is so famous worldwide. Dinner and have coffee or visit some bar by yourself to discover the night life of Hanoian. It is really wonderful moment for you.

Let us make up your great of time, please do not hesitate to contact:

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Thứ Hai, 17 tháng 3, 2014

Hanoi in foreign journalist’s eyes

Recently, a journalist of CNNgo, Bruce Foreman gave his feelings about Hanoi. According to him, Hanoi is unlike any other Asian city in 7 ways about roadside breweries, moped madness…which make tourists fall in love with Vietnam’s capital. Let read his article named “same same, but different: 7 ways Hanoi is unlike any other Asian city” to know more about Hanoi in his eyes below:

 “Traveling in Southeast Asia can get a bit samey-samey after a while. It’s all temples, heat and tourist traps, right? Until you get to Hanoi. 
The Vietnamese capital is like a breath of fresh air. The city is a graceful pastiche of cultural influences from the French and Chinese, while the Vietnamese have stubbornly retained their local ways.
Here are the things that we love about it most and that makes Hanoi stand out from all other cities in Asia.
1. Leap-of-faith traffic
Express faith in humankind; step confidently out on Hanoi roads.
Crossing the road in Hanoi is unlike anywhere else.
It's a little bit like bungee jumping. You just have to believe it when people tell you "it's going to be alright, just keep walking" despite all your instincts telling you not to take the leap.
Once you do take that first step off the pavement, there's no turning back. You can only continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that the mopeds will swerve around you instead of into you.
And it always works. The road traffic is crazy in Hanoi, but it is organized chaos and somehow pedestrians always make it to the other side. 
On foot it's a test of faith in fellow humankind as you step into moped madness, trusting scooters to avoid you as you cross the road.
On the back of a motorbike, it's like jumping into a river and running the rapids. Precarious and exhilarating.
2. Very fresh beer 

Bia hoi, Hanoi's "morning brew," enjoyed all day.
Hanoi is famous for it's dirt-cheap, unpasteurized beer made fresh daily -- bia hoi.
The official Hanoi bia hoi comes fresh daily from the Habeco factory. It ferments throughout the day, consequently tasting different at each vendor.
The flavor depends on the rate at which the beer is being sold and how much the seller has decided to water it down that day.
By day's end, unsold beer goes off and is thrown away. But there's rarely any left each evening.
The ridiculously cheap price and the fact that it is served out of plastic cups makes this the perfect anti-yuppie, anti-elitist brew, suited to the ideals of a socialist country.
Find it on every happening Hanoi corner, sometimes paired with food, other times with a television and karaoke machine offering classic tunes by Abba and Boney M.
The most famous Bia Hoi for travelers are right in the heart of the old quarter on
Bia Hoi Corner at the intersection of Luong Ngoc Quyen and Ta Hien streets. 
3. The ultimate old quarter 

Hang Bac in the Old Quarter. Once the guild street of silversmiths, now home to travel agenciee, tourist cafes and tombstone carvers.
The Old Quarter isn't just a figurative phrase in Hanoi.
A maze of at least 36 streets between Hanoi’s famed Hoan Kiem Lake, the Red River and the few walls that remain of the Hanoi Citadel, the Old Quarter is more than 1,000 years old and still going strong. 
The oldest surviving neighborhood in Vietnam, the Old Quarter became a market place where artisans organized themselves into each occupying a street. 
The craftsmen have since been overwhelmed by tourism, motor bikes, bars and zippo lighter touts. But small temples, pagodas and hidden communal guild houses still remain from the era of the guilds. 
More iconic now are the tube houses, skinny and tall by force of a land tax on street frontage. Check out tube houses at 87 Ma May Street or at 38 Hang Dao.
To spot French colonial townhouses whose lower floors are often disguised by commercial facades, you just have to look at the roof of the house which is usually preserved in its original state. 
The Vietnamese heart of colonial Hanoi, the Old Quarter is where the anti-French movement originally headquartered itself.
4. Pop war

The Vietnam War -- most iconic war?
The Vietnam War is remembered as much for the atrocities that occurred as it is for the anti-war demonstrations abroad.
A pilgrimage to Hanoi is part of the catharsis sought by veterans of the Vietnam war.
Others who grew up hearing cool protest songs by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, remain fascinated by a war that is associated with the rebellious 1960s and 1970s.
It is a war that influenced a decade of youth culture in the U.S. and continues to inform pop culture around the world.
For scars of U.S. bombings of Hanoi check out the Long Bien bridge which crosses the Red River and transported supplies from the port at Hai Phong. Or visit the Hoa Lo prison, dubbed the "Hanoi Hilton" by American GIs.
5. Shoulder-pole retail

Shoulder-pole vendors dance down the streets of Hanoi.
As a tourism capital, Hanoi is surprisingly devoid of mega shopping malls. Instead, there's the rather more interesting one-(wo)man shoulder pole shop.
Whatever you want comes to you in rattan baskets looped through a rope and balanced in pairs on bamboo poles resting on the shoulders.
These are both shop front and transport for foot vendors who can frequently be spotted underneath conical hats, triggering the photographic instinct in tourists.
Buy something -- bowls of pho, mangosteens, bunches of flowers, hair clips, household utensils -- and the photos will be accompanied by a broad Vietnamese grin.
6. Body of interest

Ho Chi Min getting Twitpic-ed.
Hanoi is the only city in Southeast Asia with an embalmed leader on display. The real body of Ho Chi Min lies preserved in his mausoleum, much against his own wish to be cremated.
Such is the consequence of being the person in the middle of a personality cult. 
Real emotion pours out of the thousands who come to view his body each day and view the man not as a dictator but as the hero of Vietnam’s independence from foreign control.
7. So French, but not

Joie de vivre translates well in Vietnam.
Whilst people from Hanoi are considered aloof by southern Vietnamese, they have nothing on Parisians.  
The Vietnamese have not forsaken their French colonial heritage and it is a great place to enjoy French aesthetics with Asian hospitality.
Many wonderful French buildings remain, mostly functional and not a few sporting a fashionable bohemian decay.
However, the success of French-Vietnamese fusion is best experienced through Hanoi's food.
French baguettes are stuffed with Vietnamese pâté and pickled vegetables to create the rich and tangy banh mi sandwiches.
Coffee is an obsession passed on by the French. In Hanoi, your espresso drips through a small aluminum filter into sweet condensed milk.  
Cafés are still arranged in the French style, as if the street is a theater and the café is the audience section. But diners are usually perched on humble plastic or rattan chairs that are mere inches from the ground.”
                                                                                                                               Source: CNNgo
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