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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. |
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| Ha Long Bay |
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| 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 TỠLong.
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| Northeast of Vietnam
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| 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
22oC. The best time to visit the area is during
the dry season, which is during winter and
spring. |
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| Other places in the North
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| 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 |
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| DMZ |
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| DMZ
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. |
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| Hue |
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| 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. |
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| Hoi An & Danang
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| 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. |
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| Nha Trang & South Central Coast
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| 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. |
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| Central Highland
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| 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. |
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| Ho Chi Minh City
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| 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. |
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| Mekong Delta
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| 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. |
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