Domestic and foreign visitors will soon have the chance to learn more about Hanoi and its history by taking a “Thang Long-Hanoi city tour – a journey through history” specially designed to celebrate of the capital’s forthcoming millennium anniversary. The tour will take visitors to destinations in Hanoi that have made a significant cultural, humanitarian, architectural [...]
Hanoi and Ha Long Bay (Viet Nam) is in an Australian website’s list of ideal destinations for family vacation in 2010. According to travel.com.au, the combinations of natural beauty, long history, pleasant weather and with a rich culture make Vietnam become an interesting tourist destination for visitors of all ages. A tour in Hanoi [...]
Almost one year away from the Hanoi-Thang long millennium event, but the capital city has been heating up with celebrations, including contests on stamp designing, poems and music composition for the October 10, 2010 festivities. The Vietnam Post Corporation has held a contest to design stamps on Hanoi, highlighting the city’s role as the capital [...]
The capital city will soon begin counting down the days until the 1,000th anniversary of its founding in 1010 with the name Thang Long. “To help residents and visitors count, a giant digital clock will be put in place on January 13, said Pham Quang Long, director of the Ha Noi Department of Culture and [...]
Following the success of the first annual European Food Festival, held in Hanoi to celebrate Europe Day last year, the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) is set to bring the event back for a second year. The festival will take place in the garden of Hanoi’s History Museum (1 Trang Tien Street, Hoan [...]
A contest on knowledge about the heroic, thousand-year old city of Thang Long-Hanoi was launched in Vientiane on November 4. Speaking at the ceremony, Editor-in-chief of Hanoi Moi Newspaper Ho Quang Loi laid stress on the national scale of the contest which is expected to conclude in October, 2010 in coincide with the 1000-year anniversary [...]
The US-based Huffington Post has named Hanoi among a top ten of great winter destinations. It lines up alongside St. Petersburg of Russia, Krakow of Poland, Edinburgh of Scotland, Tallinn of Estonia, Tokyo of Japan, Berlin of Germany, India’s Mumbai, Australia’s Sydney and Iceland’s Reykjavik. However while “Huff Post” deserves congratulations for including Hanoi [...]
A ceremony was held in Hanoi on the evening of October 10 to celebrate the 999th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and announce the National Tourism Year 2010. Present at the event, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, were Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung and Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Pham [...]
A contest to gain a better understanding of the millennium of Thang Long-Hanoi was launched in Hanoi on October 11 as part of activities to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi in 2010. The launch ceremony attracted thousands of young people, students and pupils from universities, colleges and schools in Hanoi. Contestants [...]
Hanoi’s tourism authorities and travel agents have kicked off various activities in the run up to National Tourism Year 2010 which takes the theme of “Thang Long-Hanoi, a thousand years of coming together.” The hosting of the year’s events, in coincidence with the capital city’s millennium anniversary, is expected to help promote Hanoi and Vietnam [...]