We arrived in Tram Chim on a small boat in May, when the summer heat strikes. The smell of alum fills the air. But after a while the scenery changes, the water surface becomes full of water ferns, and violet water hyacinth flowers quiver under the sunlight. In the distance lies the green and immense 'heaven’s rice' (or 'ghost' rice which grows wild) fields. Tan, our tour guide, gave the signal to head into the rice fields to pick up some young rice flowers. The sweet scent of rice enchanted those of us who had visited Tam Nong district, Dong Thap province first.

Ca trù is known as scholarly music in and has been developed within the history of Thăng Long - Hà Nội

The Quang Binh administration has revealed that an English potholing team has discovered a cave believed to be the biggest in the world, in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang world natural heritage site. At 150m hight, 140m wide, and over 5km long, the cave is believed to be the world's largest cave, almost twice the size of the current record holder.

In addition to the hallmarks of a traditional northern village, Duong Lam also offers visitors the heartfelt welcome of its country people.

Khmer people in the Mekong Delta have many year-round festivals, most of them featuring ethnic religion and culture, namely Chol Chnam Thmay, Dolta and Ok Om Bok. In Soc Trang Province’s Vinh Chau District, Chrorumchec, the festival to worship the sea, is held on the 14th and 15th days of the second lunar month (March 10-11) and is aggressively promoted to attract millions of visitors.

Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has launched a special package tour offer Campaign namely "Impressive Vietnam!" to attract inbound tourists as well as to boost domestic tourism from January to September 2009.

Long Bien Bridge was built in 1899 and inaugurated on 28 Dec 1902. It is more than 2000m long. In its early days, its name was Doumer (the name of the Indochina general governor at the time – Paul Doumer). In the war against the American, only from 1965 to 1972, Long Bien Bridge was bombed up to 14 times.