Summer is in the air and Hanoi has been chosen once again as the best destination worldwide for a cheap vacation, beating Mumbai and Bangkok. The TripIndex 2016 report by the travel guide site TripAdvisor has named Vietnam’s capital city as the least expensive among 20 favorite cities surveyed, for the third year in a …
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Favorite beach destinations Da Nang, Khanh Hoa and Phu Quoc performed very well in the past five years, together accounting for 30 percent of all tourist arrivals to Vietnam, according to a Savills report. The three places, famous for their long beautiful beaches and sunny weather most of the year, have seen an average annual increase …
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If you need a break from your busy life to enjoy some tranquil moments watching the sun slowly set on the sea, Hạ Long is the perfect getaway. Over the past two decades, Hạ Long Bay (literally means Bay of Descending Dragon) has become a popular tourist destination in the northern region of Việt Nam …
The French colonized Vietnam from 1873 to 1954, with Hanoi becoming the capital of French Indochine in 1887. While the old quarter was left intact as a distinctly Vietnamese part of the city, the French reworked much of the rest to create a European-style city. Hanoi Medical University, now at 1 Ton That Tung Street, …
