The government has agreed to inject VND5,000 billion (about US$312 million) into a project restoring the Thap Cham-Da Lat railway system, one of the unique mountain railways in the world. The 84 km long railway linking Phan Rang-Thap Cham city in Ninh Thuan Province and Da Lat city in Lam Dong province will be restored [...]
The Tea Culture Festival 2006 will take place in the flower city of Da Lat, the Central Highland province of Lam Dong from December 21-24. The festival will feature several remarkable activities such as Da Lat Travel Expo 2006 with the participation of more than 250 domestic and foreign enterprises in over 350 stalls, Da [...]
The Lam Dong provincial People’s Committee has decided to reschedule the Da Lat Flower Festival from 2009 to 2010 to coordinate with the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi. The event, previously scheduled for December 19-23, 2009, will be held from January 1-4, 2010. It will be the country’s first major event of 2010, [...]
The Central Highlands resort town of Da Lat is offering a glimpse into the past with an exhibition of 20 antique scooters and mopeds. Visitors can find various kinds of scooters, made between 1946 and 1960, which were once popular in Vietnam. One of the spectacular models on display is a VeloSolex moped, built by [...]
115 paintings of the resort city of Da Lat by painter Vi Quoc Hiep, including 95 paintings of the city’s ancient French-style villas, will be displayed at an exhibition in November. As most of the paintings depict Da Lat’s old villas, the exhibition is named “Impressions from Da Lat’s old villas”. This will be the [...]
The third Da Lat Flower Festival will be delayed until New Year’s Day 2010 to coincide with activities marking Hanoi’s 1,000-year anniversary as the capital of Vietnam, according to local authorities. The festival, initially scheduled for December 18- 23, will instead be held for four days beginning January 1, 2010 in the famous resort town [...]
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has allocated VND500 million (US$ 28,000) for restoration of Da Lat Railway Station, a national heritage site. Designed by two French architects called Moncet and Reveron, the station was built from 1932 to 1938 and was considered the most beautiful in Indochina at the time. The [...]