Bat Trang village

The artistry of Bat Trang is well known throughout Vietnam for its beautiful ceramics that have been created for over 700 years. Vases of the finest quality have graced the homes of aristocracy, rice bowls have held the food of the farmer, and electricity goes across the country using Bat Trang insulators. Young men, in expressing the strength of their love for a woman, promise to build a home from Bat Trang bricks.

On the left bank of Hong River about 10 km from Hanoi to the East lays the pottery village of Bat Trang , which is the most famous and long-standing pottery village in Vietnam . Its tradition spans more than 700 years of history. 

Ha Long Bay

The legend of Hạ Long has it that, “Once upon a time, soon after the Việt people established their country, invaders came. The Jade Emperor sent Mother Dragon and her Child Dragons down to earth to help the Việt people fight against their enemy. Just as the invaders’ boats were rushing to the shore, the dragons landed down on earth. The dragons immediately sent out from their mouths a lot of pearls, which then turned into thousands of stone islands emerging from the sea like great walls challenging the invaders’ boats. The fast boats couldn’t manage to stop and crashed into the islands and into each other and broke into pieces.

After the victory, Mother Dragon and Child Dragons didn’t return to Heaven but stayed on earth at the place where the battle had occurred. The location Mother Dragon landed is nowadays Hạ Long Bay and where Child Dragons descended is now Bái Tử Long. The dragons’ tails waving the water created Long Vĩ (present Trà Cổ peninsula) and formed a fine sand beach over ten kilometers long.”

Ba Be Lake - "A precious Jade of Vietnam"

Ba Be Lake is a place with some of the most wonderful sceneries in Vietnam . The lake is in Ba Be National Park, which is about 250km north of Hanoi . It is near Bo Lu and Pac Ngoi villages, the home of Tay ethnic people.

Ba Be itself is actually three smaller lakes joined together - Pe Lam, Pe Lu and Pe Leng. The climate is cool with an average temperature of 22^oC. The best time to visit the area is during the dry season, which is during winter and spring.

Cuc Phuong National Park

Cuc Phuong - the first national park in Vietnam officially opened in 1960 - covers an area of about 22,000 hectares in three provinces of Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa, and Hoa Binh. It is more than 100 km west south of Hanoi. The best time to visit Cuc Phuong National Park is during the dry season, from December to April, when the hard forest rain accounting for 90% of the annual rainfall is over.

Cuc Phuong National Park, which is Vietnam’s fist nature preserve, is seen as a vast natural museum, a spectacular botanical garden and zoo park of Vietnam and of the world. As this site is a giant laboratory granted by the nature to human beings, it becomes a destination of a large number of Vietnamese and foreign scientists for research. Also, Cuc Phuong is known for interesting eco-tourist sites with many splendid caves and grottos, drawing a mass of domestic and foreign tourists.

Cham Museum

When visiting the Champa museum in Danang, whether in the morning or in the afternoon, on rainy or sunny days, visitors still perceive an individual atmosphere particular to this place, the reverie of reminiscences.

Built in July 1915 with the support of the Far-East Archaeological Research Institute in Hanoi, the Champa Museum now has nearly 2000 large and small sculptures. Of these, 288 are on display inside the museum, 187 objects in the garden and more than 1.200 objects are reserved in the storehouse. Most of the sculptures in the museum are original and mainly of three kinds of materials, including sandstone, terracotta and bronze. The majority of these sculptures from the 12th to the 15th century are made of sandstone with different art styles.

DMZ The Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) was created in April, 1954 as a result of the Geneva Conference ending the war between the Viet Minh and the French.  The DMZ extends 5 km north and south of the Ben Hai River and runs approximately 100 km from the South China Sea to the Laos border. 

Antiquities Museum

Museum of Royal Arts (Antiquities Museum) locates in 03 Le Truc street with the area of 6,330 sq.m. This building used to be Long An palace that was constructed in 1845 under Thieu Tri reign. The house was a wonderful wooden work consisting of 128 rare wooden columns. On the surface of the wooden works there were hundreds of classical bas-reliefs, sacred animals such as Dragon, Unicorn, Tortoise, Phoenix and over 1000 poems in Chinese characters. Many researchers have said that the Museum of Royal Arts is the most beautiful palace in Viet Nam.

Hon Mun Beach Conservation Area

Location: It take about 45 minutes by ship away from Cau Da Port, It's near Yen Islands

Named Hon Mun because in the South East of the Island, it has high-rise cliffs with dangerous wattles forming caves and grottoes, especially its stones are as black as ebony, which could rarely be found in other areas.

Buon Ma Thuot

Buon Ma Thuot City today is a large, spacious and beautiful place with many new works and architectures as: the Post-office, City Party committee, the Central Cultural house, Broadcast-Television Station and net Communication upgraded from 1995 up to now. In chief, the quarter on the north-west of the city includes the Sport Central, buildings…Besides; some typical features of ancient architectures are still remained with a construction-design after the lines of Long house of the Edeh as: Bao Dai Palace, The See of Buon Ma Thuot has an original architecture imitated under Long-house with materials made of wood and film tiles.

Ben Thanh Market

Ben Thanh market has long been one of Saigon's most famous landmark. The market has been in existence since the French occupation. The original market was located on the shores of Ben Nghe river by old fort Gia Dinh. Its proximity to the fort and the river where merchants and soldiers would land was reason for its name (Ben meaning pier or port and Thanh meaning fort). In 1859, when the French invaded Saigon and overtook fort Gia Dinh, Ben Thanh Market was destroyed. It was rebuilt shortly thereafter and remained standing until it was moved to its present location in 1899.

Bang Lang Stork Sanctuary

45km from Can Tho, the area of 1,300 square meters is home of 150,000 storks (11 kinds of them including fly stork, egret, heron, pelican, woodpecker, etc). The biggest bird is 1.4 kg with wingspan of 1.4 meter, the smallest one weighs only 150grams. From the gate, visitors would walk over two bamboo bridges leading to the garden, then climb up to the stairs to a balcony where they can behold the stork. Some experienced after have seen the sea of storks covering fully the garden that they were in a cotton yard during a blooming season or they were watching a snow-filled expanse in Europe when snow falls.