The road decorated nearly 150 golden apricots
HO CHI MINH CITY – For the past 15 years, every Tet holiday on the sidewalk of Pham Ngoc Thach Street (District 1) is bright yellow, [...]
The old pagoda is over 1,000 years old on West Lake
HANOI – Van Nien Pagoda, formerly known as Van Tu, was built in the 11th century under the Ly Dynasty. Van Nien Pagoda is not large, [...]
Reenactment of Saigon Tet 100 years ago
About 100 antiques are decorated to recreate the Tet space, hobby, food … the spring day of Saigon people a century ago. On January 30, [...]
Flower market in the old town shows buffalo for Tet
HANOI – The streets of Hang Ma, Hang Luoc, Hang Roi … are flooded with Tet decorations such as 10 million dong sponge buffalo, Banh Chung, [...]
New tour of country's largest lake launched
Visitors can take a new tour of the country's largest lake, Ba Bể Lake in Bắc Kạn and Na Hang – Lam Bình Nature Reserve, in Tuyen Quang province.
5 delicious Dalat butter cream shops will be blown away
Dalat not only has many baked rice paper shops, tiny commercial breads … Dalat butter cream shops also contribute to creating a unique culinary map, [...]
Molded rice cakes make for a sweet Tet in central Vietnam
Days before the Lunar New Year, batches of traditional rice cakes are popping from the mold in non-stop thuds echoing across An Lac Village of Quang Nam Province.
Crab “huge” soup costing half a million dong in Saigon “attracts” customers to enjoy
The giant crab claw, weighing up to a few pounds, is placed in a hot pot of soil, mixed with thick soup, aromatic. Crab soup [...]
Coral saviours battle to turn the tide
Members of volunteer ocean animal rescue team SaSa can spend as long as eight hours underwater at a time replanting coral off Son Tra Peninsula in Da Nang.