Archive for January 20th, 2010

Viking Travel and Media in HCMC has just launched a special tour to Cambodia and Thailand by bicycle, with the first tour to start from the city on March 15.

The tour will be highly challenging for tourists, who will have to ride 960 kilometers for nine days on end from HCMC before ending up in Bangkok, where they will have the tenth day for rest and shopping before flying back to HCMC on the last day.

Under the 11-day itinerary, travelers will ride for 111 kilometers from HCMC to Tay Ninh Province’s Moc Bai border gate to Cambodia’s Svay Rieng on the first day. The next legs will be 105 kilometers from Svay Rieng to Phnom Penh, 140 kilometers from Phnom Penh to Chamka Luong, 150 kilometers from Chamka Luong to Koh Kong, and 110 kilometers from Koh Kong to Trat in Thailand. (more…)

Blossoming peach trees, ripping kumquat trees and   hundreds furrows of colorful mum flowers are the eye-catching sights when coming to garden houses in Nhat Tan village, a suburb of Hanoi. Admire the beauty of this flower village in series photos taken by Hoang Ha on VNE:

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After the success of the first Long Bien Bridge Festival in October 2009 in Hanoi, the second of its kind will be jointly held by the Vietnam Embassy in France and the Maison des Art company to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long –Hanoi.

The Maison des Art wants to use the image of the popular bridge in a display of culture and art. It will also organise a boat trip along the Red River from the ancient capital city of Hoa Lu in northern Ninh Binh Province, to Hanoi, the northern port city of Haiphong and Halong Bay in Quang Ninh.

Urban Sax, a professional music events organiser, will create a boat using cranes to lift a dragon made in an S-shape to represent Vietnam.

Around 100 dancers from Vietnam and France will perform from sunset until dawn under a sky full of kites, illuminated from the river by a lighting system installed in numerous small boats. (more…)