Ha Long Bay.
Located on the west bank of the Gulf of Tonkin, including the sea and islands of Ha Long city, Cam Pha city and part of Van Don island district, Quang Ninh province. Ha Long Bay has a coastline of 120 km, an area of about 1,553 square kilometers, including 1,969 large and small islands, most of which are limestone islands, of which the core area of the bay has an area of 335 square kilometers and is densely packed with 775 big and small islands.
Not only beautiful by the scenery “clouds, sky, waves”, poetic beauty or countless limestone islands floating on the water, Ha Long also gives visitors a feeling of peace when immersing in the scenery here. Rated as one of the 29 most beautiful bays in the world, at the end of March 2012, New Open World organization also officially recognized Ha Long Bay as one of the new seven natural wonders of the world.
Thien Mu Pagoda
Linh Mu Pagoda, is an ancient pagoda located on Ha Khe hill, on the left bank of the Perfume River, about 5km west of Hue city center. Thien Mu Pagoda was officially built in the year of Tan Suu (1601), the reign of Lord Tien Nguyen Hoang, the first Nguyen Lord in Dang Trong.
With natural beauty and large scale, Thien Mu pagoda became the most beautiful temple at that time. Experiencing many historical events, Thien Mu pagoda was once used as an altar for the Earth sacrifice under the Tay Son dynasty (about 1788), and then restored many times under the Nguyen dynasties. Today, the pagoda continues to be embellished to become more and more glorious, magnificent and always attractive, attracting a large number of tourists from near and far.
Hoan Kiem Lake
Also known as Sword Lake, is a natural freshwater lake of Hanoi city, the lake has an area of about 12 hectares. Previously, the lake also had other names: Luc Thuy lake, Thuy Quan lake, Ta Vong lake and Huu Vong lake, the name Hoan Kiem appeared in the early 15th century associated with the legend of King Le Thai To returning the treasure sword to the Turtle God.
Hoan Kiem Lake is associated with legendary legends, and is a symbol of the Vietnamese nation’s desire for peace, virtue of martial arts. Therefore, many writers and artists have taken the image of Sword Lake as the basis for their works.
Hoi An ancient town
Hoi An city is located on the north bank of the lower Thu Bon river, about 25km from Da Nang city to the Southeast, about 50km from Tam Ky city to the Northeast. Since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this place has been famous as Faifoo, a place of trade and a major trading center of Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian traders… in Southeast Asia.
Hoi An today almost preserves the status of ancient architectural relics and intangible cultural foundations in customs, beliefs, folk art, cultural festivals, and villages. In addition, the culinary culture in Hoi An is also one of the special things that tourists often mention, if they have come here but have not enjoyed traditional dishes such as: Cao Lau, Quang noodles , cake “white rose” … is considered to have never been to Hoi An.
Phu Quoc Island
This island is also known as Pearl Island, is the largest island in Vietnam, also the largest island in a population of 22 islands in the Gulf of Thailand. Phu Quoc Island together with other islands form Phu Quoc island district under Kien Giang province. The entire island district has a total area of 589.23 square kilometers.
In 2008, website Concierge.com (specializing in tourism in Australia) announced Bai Dai Phu Quoc as one of 13 “wildest and most beautiful” beaches in the world. In addition, Phu Quoc is also a place to produce a kind of fish sauce that is not only famous in Vietnam but also known around the world.
Sapa terraced fields
Sa Pa is a highland town in the Northwest of Vietnam, where there are beautiful terraced fields, stretching like stairs reaching to the back of the sky. With majestic and poetic natural scenery, mysterious love markets and rich and unique cuisine, Sa Pa has “fascinated” most tourists when coming here.
In 2009, Travel and Leisure Magazine (USA) also voted Sapa terraced fields as one of the 7 most beautiful terraced fields in Asia and the world. In December 2011, Lonely Planet (UK) tourism magazine introduced the land “Sa Pa is one of the 10 great places in the world for walking” and in early November 2013, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has also decided to rank Sapa terraces as a national scenic heritage.
Mui Ne
As a famous tourist center in the South Central region, 22km from the center of Phan Thiet city (Binh Thuan province) to the Northeast, this place is a wild green coast with red sand dunes stretching like the deserts
Mui Ne also attracts tourists by many historical and cultural relics of a diverse and multi-ethnic culture such as Kinh, Cham, and Hoa, typically with Cham towers, Water towers, Ong Pagoda, and Ba Thien Hau pagoda, Van Thuy Tu and many other relics of cultural, historical and tourist value.
Mekong Delta
As a part of the Mekong Delta, also known as the Southern Delta or the Southwest region, the total area is 40,548.2 square kilometers. Due to the long coastline and the Mekong River divided into many tributaries, canals, islets, islands and large and small archipelagos, this place is suitable for various types of ecotourism, experience and discovery.
Coming to the Mekong Delta, in addition to visiting the vast fruit gardens, walking on one of the 9 tributaries flowing into the sea of the Mekong River, listening to folk music and enjoying the specialties of the South, visitors also find it difficult to ignore visiting floating markets, a feature only found in the West.
Cu Chi tunnel
As an underground defense system in Cu Chi district, the land is known as “steel land”, 70km from Ho Chi Minh City to the West – North. This system was built by the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam during the Indochina War and the Vietnam War.
This is a unique architectural work located deep in the ground, with many floors, many nooks and crannies like spider webs over 200km long. With 3 different depths, the upper floor is about 3m from the ground, the middle floor is about 6m from the ground and the bottom floor is more than 12m deep. Up to now, Ben Duoc and Ben Dinh Tunnels have been recognized by the State as a national historical relic
Nha Trang
Is a coastal city and the political, economic, cultural, and tourist center of Khanh Hoa province, in the South Central Coast of Vietnam. The land of the sea is also famous for its salangane bird’s nest, one of the nutritious and delicious foods used by kings 400 years ago.
Dubbed the “Pearl of the Far East”, Nha Trang not only possesses a fresh and cool natural landscape with stretching white sand beaches, offshore islands with a magical coral ecosystem, but also famous for many mossy ancient Cham temples, quiet museums in the heart of the city.
