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Vietnamese Language

Vietnam LanguageVietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ), formerly known under French colonization as Annamese (see Annam), is the national and official language of Vietnam. Read the rest of this entry »

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Om Beach – pride of nature

Om Beach is a stop that any tourist coming to Phu Yen Province should not miss in order to wallow in the temptation of nature.

As modern development continues to devour the natural world, more and more people look for antiques or a pristine destination to experience life in a way more similar to the way our ancestors lived.

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My Son tourism to drive socio-economic progress

The development of tourism at My Son heritage site will be a major motivation for socio-economic progress in Duy Xuyen district in the central province of Quang Nam in the coming years.

Duy Xuyen People’s Committee vice chairman Le Trung Hoa made the announcement on Dec. 2, as the district celebrated the tenth year since My Son was recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as a World Culture Heritage site.

Hoa said that over the next five years, the district will concentrate on protecting and restoring My Son relics and developing infrastructure as well as human resources to promote tourist potential, in a bid to generate more jobs, reduce hunger and erase poverty.

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Hue beef noodle

Hue beef noodle takes its origin from the Royal Hue City of Central Vietnam. The broth is from cooking beef bones for a long period of time as well as a variety of different spices including lemongrass.

How does it taste? Well, having a bowl of Hue beef noodle, you will easily recognize that it is completely different from Pho since the former’s beef broth is much more spicy.

How to make it? Learning how to make a clear broth from bone and meat is quite a difficult task. After being selected from the market, the fresh beef will be shredded, boiled and taken out of the water to obtain a delicious clear broth. A typical version of Hue beef noodle must include pork, roast beef, pig’s blood, Vietnamese salami, Hue’s style salami, shrimp sauce and chopped lettuce.

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Vietnamese Money Through Time

New coins were minted by every new dynasty in the East. But kings were not the only ones to issue their own money…

For the four short days of the year 1521 in which his contemporaries called him “King,” Tran Cao did one major thing to commit his name to posterity: he minted his own coins.

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Arts and crafts

Arts and crafts in Vietnam have a close relation to the culture of Vietnam. These works of art by the Vietnamese have been used over the ages to decorate both temples and houses. Vietnam has been home to beautiful works of art and craft dating back to the Neolithic age. Ceramics from around this period have been discovered enriching the history of Vietnam. Ceramics had an important place during the 11th century as they were required for the religious rituals of Buddhism. The ceramic arts and crafts in Vietnam are tour de forces in the art scenes around the world. Their beauty and elegance drew the attraction of the royals who became their patrons. The making of these ceramics involved generous use of whitish ivory and jade green glazes for ornamentation. The 15th and 16th century witnessed more liberal use of ornamentation. Blue-white ceramics was introduced in Vietnam with the coming of cobalt blue.

Vietnam arts and crafts hold a prominent place in the international art arena. Vietnam is now regarded as the land to have introduced the art of woodcuts which were used for book illustrations and pictures. Another famous work of art from Vietnam is that of woodcarving. It is practiced on ironwood, ebony, reddish mahogany and rosewood. These woods have a beauty of their own which is imprinted on the work. They are colored to look more beautiful.

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7 Things to do in Saigon

Looking for more of those Vietnam experiences that make you take a moment to scratch your head and marvel at the situation you’ve found yourself in? Fred Bane finds seven mind boggling destinations, all within a day’s travel from Saigon.

Dam Sen Park is Saigon’s take on Disneyland. Hard to miss, with an enormous three-arched red gate heralding the entrance, inside the park guests are welcomed by enormous statues made of china bowls. Standard amusement park fun includes Ferris wheel, roller coaster with a loop-de-loop, a seriously fun aviary, and a fishing hole shaped like Hanoi’s West Lake. But the piece de resistance is Dam Sen’s dinosaurs. The 5000 square meter Cong Vien Khung Long (the same name the film Jurassic Park was given in Vietnamese) houses around 200 model dinosaurs, half of which are animatronic, and the smallest which are between two to four metres tall. After paying and entering you take a riverboat trip to see the things in their ‘natural habitat’. Amazing.

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Ca Tru Singing Hanoi

With nearly thousand-year development, ca tru is a scholarly art form that attached to history of Thang Long - Hanoi. After many years of being forgotten,ca tru has been welcomed by people in the recent time.
However, this art form still runs the risk of loss because currently there are only 26 preserved modalities among 99 modalities of ca tru. Therefore Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism submitted the file to UNESCO for recognizing ca tru as Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

With main goal of preserving, developing and advertising ca tru to Vietnamese and foreigners, Thang Long Ca Tru Theatre opened on April 3, 2009. The theatre is the first place having professional ca tru shows in Vietnam.

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Emergency Information

We provide a list of some hospital addresses and emergency phone numbers in case of emergency situations. Keep them carefully for your safety when traveling in Vietnam.

In Hanoi Capital

Hanoi French Hospital Hanoi French Hospital

1B Phuong Mai
Tel: 844-577 1100
Professionally managed and staffed family health clinic with dull emergency medical services including medevac. Foreign and local doctors include experts in tropical medicine, natal care, psychology and other disciplines.

Bach Mai Hospital

Giai Phong Street
Tel: 844-869 3731
Large local hospital with a well-equipped and staffed foreigners wing. Read the rest of this entry »

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Transportations

Major airlines in Vietnam

Major airlines flying to Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi include:

Aeroflot
Asian Airlines
China Southern Airlines
Garuda Indonesia
Lao Airlines
Pacific Airlines
Shanghai Airlines
Tiger Airways
Vietnam Airlines
Air France
Cathay Pacific
Emirates
Japan Airlines
Lufthansa
Philippines Airlines
Singapore Airlines
United Airlines
All Nippon Airways
China Airlines
Eva Air
Korean Air
Malaysian Airlines
Qantas
Thai Airways Intl.
Uzbekistan Airlines

Most of Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea, and Russia have direct flights to and from Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi. Cheap airlines are limited to Air Asia operated between Hanoi and Bangkok, Hanoi and Kuala Lumpur, Jetstar between Ho Chi Minh City and Sydney, Tiger Airway between Hanoi/ Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore. Read the rest of this entry »

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