Explore Ancient Phuoc Tich Village

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 21 September 2011, Vietnam Jeep Tours has launched new biking tour to Explore Ancient Phuoc Tich Village for biking lovers.

This short biking trip will bring you around Phuoc Tich Village with average bike about 40 km per day. The ancient village is well – known for its traditional pottery crafts and ancient houses and temples that have been preserved for 500 years in the traditional style.

In this trip we will bike along the Tam Giang lagoon to reach Phuoc Tich village, then have some stops of visit and photo-hunt at few ancient houses, family chapel, and communal house and find Cham culture vestiges still existing only in this village. Continue to handicraft village Thuy Lap where famous at the bamboo and rattan weaving for learning how the locals make their traditional production. The first day’s final biking stop is at local market to behold the beautiful moment of local daily. Overnight at a local old-style traditional house “Nha Ruong” is also a highlight of this trip.

Next day before return Hue city, we cannot miss a nice cruise on the O Lau River to behold the charming & peaceful scenery of the village, and pause at a hand-made pottery shop to learn how local artisans produce pottery item which is not so popular in common market. All about this trip is to make you break away from daily busy urban life.

This trip is available in the dry season (from January to September) and suitable for individual or small group of travelers to travel to Phuoc Tich Village. For more information about this tour, click here or contact via adventure@vietnamjeeptours.com / hotline: +84 909 602 370.

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Organizer of adventure tours in Vietnam, featuring various types of activities including Jeep, motor biking, cycling, trekking, and culture exploration in Vietnam.

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Crowne Plaza Opens In Danang

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced opening of its second Crowne Plaza in Vietnam - Crowne Plaza Danang. The 535-room beachfront hotel is the largest hotel in Central Vietnam by room count and offers a 2,500m² of meeting and event space catering for up to 640 people.

Previously known as Silver Shores International Resort, the seafront hotel is 15 minutes’ drive from the Danang International Airport.

The opening of Crowne Plaza Danang brings tourists more options of accommodation and shopping when they visit Danang or Hoi An.

For more information about Crowne Plaza Danang visit www.crowneplaza.com/danang or more details about Danang accommodation, click here.

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Second Nikko Hotel To Open In Ho Chi Minh City

Hotel Nikko Saigon, a new five-star addition to the Nikko Hotels International group, will open 18 December and is now accepting reservations.

The hotel, in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, has 334 spacious guest rooms occupying 25 floors of the new commercial complex, Royal Centre Project. Restaurants will include La Brasserie, offering all-day dining with Western-style and Japanese cuisine, Chinese restaurant Ming Court and a Japanese restaurant. Banquet and meeting facilities include a grand ballroom that holds 600 guests, a smaller meeting room and six function rooms. In conjunction with its business centre, the hotel offers 14 temporary offices to cater for people preparing to open businesses in Vietnam.

More details about accommodation in Ho Chi Minh City, click here.

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Cham Kate Festival To Be Celebrated

The Brahman Cham community in Ninh Thuan Province will celebrate its annual Kate festival on September 27 (the first day of the seventh month in the Cham calendar).

Kate, one of the most significant Cham festivals, is held annually to commemorate their gods, heroes and ancestors.

The three-day festival will feature ritual offerings, a palanquin procession, folk songs and dances, as well as performances on Paranung drums and Saranai panpipes, two traditional Cham musical instruments.

A Trade, Tourism and Craft Villages Fair opened today as part of the festival. Nearly 300 booths at the fair display products from local enterprises and traditional craft villages as well as other specialties of the province. The week-long event will also include seminars on business and trade promotion with the aim of attracting more enterprises, investors and visitors to the locality.

Ninh Thuan Province is home to nearly 68,000 Cham people, who earn their living mainly by farming, brocade weaving and running small businesses. They make up 11.3% of the province's population, and 41,000 are followers of the Brahman religion.

Source: tuoitrenews.vn

For more information about tours to Ninh Thuan Province, please contact Vietnam Jeep Tours via www.vietnamjeeptours.com or adventure@vietnamjeeptours.com / hotline: +84 909 602 370.

Travel Attraction: The Red River Delta

The Red River (Song Hong) is located in Northern Vietnam was listed as one of the eighteen most beautiful sites on Earth by Russian magazine Ria Novosti last week, together with American Grand Crayon, Indonesian Komodo national park, and Russian Baikal Lake.

The entire delta region is no more than three metres above sea level, and much of it is one metre or less. The area is subject to frequent flooding: at some places the high-water mark is fourteen metres above the surrounding countryside. Dikes and canals protect the delta from the floodwaters.

A major highway crosses the delta and the coastal strip beyond, an important transportation route linking China and Vietnam.

Historically, the delta has produced a large number of skilled craftspeople. The annual rice-growing cycle featured a period where farmers left the land fallow, thus freeing them to pursue other money-making ventures.

Villages specialized in a wide variety of crafts that ranged from the making of conical “non la” hats to the production of lacquer-ware. The tradition continues to the present day in the form of Vietnam’s famous “craft villages”, mostly clustered in the rural areas surrounding Hanoi and now major tourist attraction.

Today, Red River is not only an important hub of transportation but also a touristic site in Vietnam.

Vietnam Jeep Tours has offered tour 19 Days on Bike from Saigon to Hanoi related to Red River Delta. For more information about tours to Red River Delta, please contact Vietnam Jeep Tours via www.vietnamjeeptours.com or adventure@vietnamjeeptours.com / hotline: +84 909 602 370.

Hanoi Flower Festival 2012 To Open In December

The Hanoi Flower Festival 2012 will open in the capital city of Hanoi from December 30, 2011 to January 2, 2012.

According to Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Khac Loi, the festival aims to honour the Cultural Heritage Sites and values that were recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), especially those of Hanoi through the means of flower.

It is part of activities to promote cultural tourism in the capital city and respond to the National Tourism Year 2012, which takes the theme of “Heritage Tourism”

This year’s festival will be held in streets of Dinh Tien Hoang, Le Thai To, Le Lai, Le Thach, the downtown, on the surface of Hoan Kiem lake and in popular sites of Ngoc Son temple, Tran Ba temple, The Huc bridge and Hoa Phong towers.

In the framework of the event, a wide range of activities such as flower arranging competitions, traditional games, exhibitions of ornamental plants, handicraft and tourism products will be also organised.

Source: en.baomoi.com

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Epic Ma Pi Leng Pass in Ha Giang

Ma Pi Leng Pass is located between Meo Vac Commune and Dong Van Plateau, and 15 – kilometre canyon road above the Nho Que River, which weaves its way like a silver ribbon through limestone ravines.

The pass' peak is aptly named Cong Troi (Heaven's Gate), and is the best place for tourists in Vietnam to enjoy a panoramic view of the valley below, particularly on a late afternoon when you can see a beautiful sunset overlooking the river.

Ma Pi Leng is at the height of nearly 2,000m above sea level. The construction of Ma Pi Leng (which takes the form of a crouching horse) began in the 1960’s, and was said to be done almost entirely by the H’mong people.

In the beginning, to accomplish their tasks, construction workers had to carry explosives and move along the sides of the mountain by securing themselves to ropes.

The earliest passes were wide enough only for horses pulling carriages and people to walk through. It wasn’t until much later that the authorities allowed the widening of these passes.

Just a few years ago, the paths at Ma Pi Leng were extremely bumpy and riddled with stones. They were also not wide enough for two cars travelling in opposite directions. Nowhere else in Vietnam is there a place as mighty and wild as Ma Pi Leng.

Looking toward the North and Northeast, thousands of gray, Rocky Mountains form layers along the horizon. Right beside the road are deep valleys, at the bottom of which lies the Nho Que River, where cool water flows peacefully.

On the mountain pass in Meo Vac, trees are scattered; along with stones, which have been lonely through years and centuries.

Mong aborigines are in favour of living in mountain tops, or at least along the sides of the mountains. They absolutely refuse to move to the plain. Neighbours take a half of day to walk from this mountain to other to visit each other.

Ma Pi Leng is not only a beautifully nature landscape but also a historical evidence for memorizing the volunteer youth, if you are excited to travel to Ma Pi Leng Pass please contact Vietnam Jeep Tours via www.vietnamjeeptours.com or adventure@vietnamjeeptours.com / hotline: +84 909 602 370.

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