According to the popular website www.lonelyplanet.com, Highway 1 in Vietnam is the only way of Asia in the top 10 world's most beautiful roads for cycling tourists.
Vietnam has welcomed almost 4 million foreign visitors since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year rise of 18.3 percent, and earned nearly 85 trillion VND in revenue from tourism.
To give tourists a fun time on National Day vacations, the Cham Cultural Exhibition Center in Phan Hiep Commune, Bac Binh District, Phan Thiet City will host many attractive programs.
A tourism programme opened in the northwestern province of Son La on August 27 to mark the August Revolution (August 19) and Vietnam’s National Day (September 2).
The Hanoi-based Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups has received coral stones taken from Truong Sa as evidence of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the archipelago.
The Vietnamese Cuisine Month was launched at Habour Plaza Metropolis Hotel, Hong Kong on August 29. The event is aimed at offering Hong Kong people a chance to enjoy Vietnamese traditional dishes such as pho (noodle soup), sea-crab spring rolls, and Southern spring rolls.
Thai food lovers can sample an international buffet which includes authentic Thai cuisine prepared by Thai master chefs at Cafe Saigon Restaurant on the ground floor of the Moevenpick Hotel Saigon from now until Saturday.
The Miss Ethnic Vietnamese pageant is the only national beauty contest this year that aims to seek three representatives to take part in international competitions, announced the organising board.
