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.

Related programs to Danang:
8 Day Vietnam Abseiling Package
11 Days Motorcycling the Ho Chi Minh Trail - Half Challenge
19 Days on Bike from Saigon to Hanoi

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.

Related programs to Ho Chi Minh City:
Holiday in Saigon
Saigon City Tour
Half Day Cu Chi Tunnels
Full Day Discover the rural of Mekong Delta by Jeep
Discover Rung Sac Guerilla Base
Biking to explore My Tho (Mekong Delta)
2 Days 1 Night Explore Rural Mekong Delta on Motorcycles

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.

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.

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

Vietnam Jeep Tours is also the centre for community travel where we together with our local partners and travellers are promoting sustainable tourism both in eco terms and social responsibilities. Leave behind only footprint and bring some contribution to the local communities where we operate. Details of company and travel offers please visit www.vietnamjeeptours.com

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

Related programs to Hanoi:
3 Days Taste of Ho Chi Minh Trail
5 Days Motorcycling West to East Northern
7 Days Motorcycling Northwestern Trails
9 Days Bike North Vietnam
11 Days Motorcycling the Ho Chi Minh Trail - Half Challenge
14 Days Motorcycling Adventure in Northern Vietnam
25 Days Vietnam Expedition

Dalat To Host Flower Festival

Dalat, a Vietnam’s well – known tourist attraction will hold its fourth annual flower festival at the end of this year. It will take place from December 12, 2011 to January 3, 2012 in Dalat.

“Dalat – The Flower Festival City” will have activities like flower exhibitions, photo displays and flower – decorated floats marching around the Central Highland city and its neighbouring areas.

The festival’s main venue whose total area covers 12,000 meter square will be located near its Ho Xuan Huong lake and decorated with four large flower beds, Dalat’s seasonal flower displays and installations and miniatures made of flowers of Europe origin.

Locals citizen are also encouraged to grow and decorate their houses with flowers, as authority said they had prepared at least 30,000 flower seedlings to give out.

Related programs to Dalat:
Full Day Biking to North of Dalat
Full Day - Biking Off-road to South of Dalat
2 Days Trekking & Camping in Isolated village
Hardcore Trekking at Tiger Cave Falls
Full Day Dalat - Tuyen Lam Lake Kayaking
Full Day Dalat - Rock Climbing at Datanla
Full Day Dalat - Datanla Waterfall Canyoning (Water Abseiling)

Ho Chi Minh City To Host Indochina Expo

Tourism industry representatives from 31 countries and territories will fly to HCM City next week for an annual travel expo on Viet Nam and three other Indochina countries.

Travel Expo 2011, titled Four Countries, One Destination, will be held at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in District 7 from September 14 to 17.

According to the city Tourism Promotion Division, the four – day event will see a sharp increase in the number of local and foreign exhibitors, including some for the first time from Australia, China, South Korea, Russia, and the US.

The event will feature a conference on tourism in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
To attract locals, organisers have arranged a dozen free buses from the city centre to the exhibition site.

Related programs to Ho Chi Minh City:
Holiday in Saigon
Saigon City Tour
Half Day Cu Chi Tunnels
Full Day Discover the rural of Mekong Delta by Jeep
Discover Rung Sac Guerilla Base
Biking to explore My Tho (Mekong Delta)
2 Days 1 Night Explore Rural Mekong Delta on Motorcycles

The Forgotten “A Xoo Tunnel” In Quang Nam Province

Deep down towards the east of the Truong Son Mountain Range in the central province of Quang Nam lies a forgotten historical tunnel named by the local ethnic people as the A Xoo Tunnel.

Located in A Nong Commune of Tay Giang District this tunnel was built in 1968 – 1970 by soldiers and the K’tu ethnic people as a hiding spot, a place to store food and weapon caches and serve as a temporary hospital during the American war.

This 100 metre long tunnel runs through the mountain and has seven off shoot tunnels. Some sections of the tunnel were damaged during the “carpet bombing” by American troops.A Lang Dan, chairman of the Tay Giang War Veteran Association, was one of the people who took part in building the tunnel. The Tay Giang authorities rediscovered the historical tunnel and have restored it in many damaged places.

Now, the tunnel has become a historical site for schools in the district who take students there on field trips, in the hope of imparting knowledge of past revolutionary heroes to the younger generation.

Efforts are also being made to advertise the site so that more national and international visitors can view this culturally historical site in future.

Source: saigon-gpdaily.com.vn

Related programs to Quang Nam:
Half Day Highlights Of Ancient Hoi An
Half Day Hoi An Environs
Full Day Hoi An Ancient Town & My Son
Biking Through The Ancient Paths - Hue & Hoi An 4 Days 3 Nights
11 Days Motorcycling the Ho Chi Minh Trail - Half Challenge
19 Days on Bike from Saigon to Hanoi
25 Days Vietnam Expedition