Saigontourist Travel Service Company and the Yasaka-Saigon-Nhatrang Hotel, under management of Saigontourist Holding Company, use this occasion to try to attract festival-goers with special events.

The four-star Yasaka Saigon Nhatrang Hotel, located in the center of the city, will hold a number of festival events that promise to leave guests with unforgettable memories.

There will be a parasol display before a doorshow featuring music and dancing at the hotel’s lobby from 6:30 p.m. from Friday to Wednesday.

The hotel will prepare Asian, Vietnamese and Western fare in the Beach Cuisine event which will be held from 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

There will also be a rock balancing competition and on Tuesday the hotel will join the Cyclo challenge and parade at April 2 Square and along Tran Phu and main streets of the city.

Meanwhile, Saigontourist will offer trips, including a five-day tour to Nha Trang-Dalat priced at VND3.2 million, departing on Sunday, a four-day tour to Hon Mun Island-Wonder Park priced at VND2.9 million,

departing on Saturday, a four-day tour to Nha Trang-Hoa Lan Stream-Doc Let Beach priced at VND2.5 million, departing on Sunday, a six-day tour to Phan Thiet-Nha Trang-Dalat priced at VND4.7 million and a five-day tour to Phan Thiet-Nha Trang priced at VND4.2 million both departing on Saturday.

Saigontourist Travel Service Company is located at 45 Le Thanh Ton Street, HCMC’s District 1.

The Yasaka Saigon Nhatrang Hotel is at 18 Tran Phu Street, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province.

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The fifth biennial Nha Trang Sea Festival, themed Nha Trang – Coastal Destination this year, will be held next month.

Life’s a beach: Nha Trang Beach in the coastal province of Khanh Hoa will host some 60 cultural, arts and tourism events next month during the fifth biennial Nha Trang Sea Festival. (Photo: VNS)

It will feature some 60 cultural, arts, sporting and tourism events, Khanh Hoa Province People’s Committee deputy chairman and head of the organising board, Le Xuan Than told the media in HCM City on Monday.

“The festival aims to attract domestic and foreign tourists to the province and the country,” Than said.

Thai Nguyen Province will also participate into this event this year, he said.

From June 2 to 10 there will be a fishing and sea tours at night, an S1 water-motorbike performance, a sepak takraw competition on the beach, and a Nha Trang sea bath day.

There will be environmental protection activities, including a city-wide rubbish clean-up on the International Environment Day (June 5), and a conference on marine preservation.

Exhibitions will be held to showcase Cham culture, Lu Cam porcelain, calligraphy, photographs of the city, and high-quality Vietnamese goods, as will a festival of folk cuisine and the region’s special dishes, a music concert and comedy shows.

The organisers will highlight the region’s speciality – swallow’s nest – with conferences on the industry’s history and traditional culture, developing swallow communities and the uses of swallow’s nests, and two swallow’s nest festivals in the city and on Hon Noi Island.

A charity show, Dance on the Beach, will be held on June 10.

The main festival will open with a fireworks display. The opening day will feature a volleyball competition, a film week, a street photo exhibition on the Beauty of Aloe Wood Region, another on the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago, a Champa pottery and brocade display, a cooking contest, a food court, and a street-arts show.

The highlights of the festival will be parades of bicycles, pedicabs, Vespa scooters and vintage motorbikes, an exhibition of sand art, human chess, a Fish Worshipping ceremony, stunt kite flying, dancing by the best couples from the Khanh Hoa Gymnasium, poetry recitation, and music shows themed the sea and islands.

Morbihan Province of France will participate in the festival, bringing its own musicians and photography enthusiasts.

Vietravel’s diving centre, Vinadive, will organise underwater weddings for 10 couples on June 15 at Hon Mun Sea Reserve Area.

Of the cost of organising the festival, 80 per cent has been contributed by organisations and businesses in Khanh Hoa and elsewhere.

Source: VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

On June 2, or a fortnight before the official festival, several activities will be held to welcome the main event, including a fishing tour at night, a sea tour at night, a martial art performance on the seaside, an art picture market, and calligraphy exhibition. There will also be a display of Champa culture, a photo exhibition, a fair for high-quality Vietnamese goods, and music concert and comedy shows.

The main festival will feature a film week, Lu Cam porcelain exhibition, Champa pottery and brocade display, a street photo exhibition, fireworks displays, water-motorbike performance, a food court and a fashion show among others. According to the organizer, the topic on Truong Sa Archipelago will be highlighted during the festival.

France will participate in the festival with music performances, photography talks, and French language discussions.

On this occasion, the diving center Vinadive under Vietravel Nha Trang branch will organize underwater weddings for ten couples on June 15 at Nha Trang Beach to promote sea tourism in Nha Trang to domestic and foreign tourists.

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(Source: SGT)

The sea festival will include around 50 events which will run throughout June. The most important parts will be activities to support the International Environmental Day (June 5), the International Ocean Day (June and the “Day for Truong Sa”.

The “Day for Truong Sa” is the day for mainland people to show their love to those who are living and working on Truong Sa Archipelago. Various activities will be organized on the day, such as a workshop on Truong Sa, screening films about Truong Sa, photo and painting exhibitions of Truong Sa, art performances, etc.

Khanh Hoa Province’s Chair, Le Xuan Than, confirmed that the festival will be a big and interesting event which features the characters of Nha Trang.

The Nha Trang Sea Festival has been held for four times and has become a major tourism event in Nha Trang city.

Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2011 themed “Vietnamese kitchen in Hue ornamental garden,” to promote Vietnamese culture will be held from April 30 to May 3.

The festival will take place in the three venues of Ngo Mon Square, Dai Noi Imperial Citadel and Huong Riverside in Hue City and is split into the two parts of traditional food and ornamental plants.

Three presentations on ornamental plants titled “Arts ornamental plants and feelings,” “Hue – a green space,” and “Meditation and ornamental plants” start from 5 p.m. on April 29 at Dai Noi Imperial Citadel, Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street and Phu Van Lau Park. There will also be a food show reflecting the three regions’ specialties, North, South and Central, to be hosted on Huong River.

Traditional music takes the form of don ca tai tu (southern amateur music), Khmer dance and folk music or dan ca Nam Bo (Southern opera singing).

The “Northern food and recipes” pavilion will be a visitor magnet with its offerings of Hanoi specialties, folk games and performances of ca tru (royal singing) and hat xam (traditional singing of the North performed by blind artists).

The “Hue vegetarian food” section will introduce royal dishes, Hue sweet soups, Hue rice and cakes together with 100 recipes that teach people how to cook Hue dishes.

There will also be a floating food fair on Huong River in the evening during the festival, and an ornamental tree festival at the Ngo Mon Square, Phu Van Lau Park and Nguyen Dinh Chieu walking street.

An exhibition of ancient cooking utensils will be organized at the Lieu Quan Cultural Center, 13 Le Loi Street on April 29.

The festival will also include a cooking contest for children, a photo exhibition and an environment walk. During five days of the festival, there will be short courses to teach people how to make Hue dishes.

Kite flying is on April 30 from 1.30pm to 5pm, human chess from 4-6 p.m. on May 1 and 2, a boat race on May 3 and a lion dance show at 5pm from April 30 to May 3.

Members of the Vietnam

Ornamental Tree Association and ornamental tree clubs of cities and provinces nationwide including Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Ninh Binh, Hai Duong, Phu Tho, Thanh Hoa, Nam Dinh, Quang Ngai, Danang, Binh Duong, Ben Tre, HCMC and Thua Thien-Hue will join the show.

The opening ceremony will take place at 8 pm on April 30 and the closing ceremony will be held at 8 pm on May 3 at Ngo Mon Square and will be broadcasted live on TV.

Hue Traditional Craft Festival is organized every two years during the peak tourist season to attract local and foreign visitors.

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Some travel firms said that their tours to Da Nang during this time are nearly fully booked.

Song Da Tour offers Hanoi-Hue-Da Nang-Hoi An tour in four days, starting on April 29, at the price of VND6.8 million/person. Tourists will visit almost all heritage sites in the central region, spend time at My Khe beach and see fireworks in Da Nang.

Redtour said that its tours to Danang on April 30 were fully booked. Tours on April 28 left only seven seats. This company offers Da Nang-Ba Na-Hoi an – Lang co in four days during this time, starting on April 28 and 30, pricing VND6.5 million/person.

Redtour’s manager Nguyen Cong Hoan said that visitors will watch fireworks from the roof of their hotel in Danang.

Hotels in Danang are busy preparing to welcome tourists during the firework festival. Furama Resort Danang said that most of its rooms were booked in late April. The resort will offer a tour package to see firework shows, pricing VND1.5 million/person, with ticket, dinner, bus, tour guide.

Vietnam Airlines and Jetstar Pacific also said that tickets to Da Nang in late April are nearly sold out.

According to the Da Nang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, there are 25,000-30,000 seats for visitors at the firework festival on April 29-30. Tickets will be delivered through travel agents.

For the first time, Da Nang authorities allow tourist boats to serve tourists at the firework festival but they are not allowed to sell ticket over VND200,000/person.

Source: Vietnamnet

The event attracted the attendance of more than 150 travel companies of Hanoi and Danang who want to share experience and look for chances in travel business as well as contribute to promote the tourism images of the 2 cities.

The event’s theme is “Sparkling Han river”. It is also the name of the international fireworks contest which will be held on April 30th 2011.

Vice Director of Danang’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mr. Nguyen Minh Nhon said in 2011, the city will develop many new special tourist products to satisfy the demands of domestic and oversea visitors. He also mentioned the most modern and biggest museum of Central Vietnam- Danang museum which has just opened on Tet holiday. The museum is a place to keep and develop special cultural values, promisingly an attractive destination of the city.

Many tourist products will be developed to welcome visitors such as traveling by helicopter, “Tourist Heaven” tour, visiting Son Tra peninsula, diving, fishing tours…ect.

In addition, visitors will have a chance to experience adventure games on the sea, enjoy local special foods as well as learn more traditional culture through performances of art…

Danang is one of the biggest tourism centers of Vietnam, having many potentials and advantages to develop and promote tourism to the world.

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Source: TITC

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan beat the drum to launch the start of the festival. Prominent guests at the ceremony were Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan, the Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Executive Council, Most Venerable Thich Thanh Tu, Buddhist dignitaries, monks, nuns, followers and visitors. All joined in offering incense to King Tran Nhan Tong, who reigned over the country from 1279 to 1293 and then renounced the throne to devote his life to Buddhism. All present also joined another ceremony to pray for peace for the country and the citizens.

According to the organizing committee, the weather this year has been so pleasantly conducive that a large number of visitors are being drawn to the Festival.

The Tung lam tour Company is making use of the cable car system to serve tourists who want to visit the Dong pagoda on Bach Van Son Mountain. Unfortunately, the 70 cable cars are still unable to meet the tourist rush and hundreds of tourists have to walk up to the Dong pagoda.

Yen Tu has so far welcomed over 20,000 visitors since the first day of the lunar year and the festival will last through spring for three months. Last year the festival recorded over 2.1 million visitors according to Vu Van Khoan, Vice Director of the Managing Board of Yen Tu pagoda.

Yen Tu Mountain is located about 50km from Ha Long City. The winding route of the pilgrimage from the foot of the mountain to its peak is almost 30km. On the highest peak sits the Dong Pagoda, which is more than a kilometer above sea level.

The area’s natural beauty and awe-inspiring landscape in its surrounding setting of ancient pagodas and hermitages is said to be the reason that King Tran Nhan Tong renounced his throne to devote his life to Buddhism on this majestic Mountain. He crowned his son as heir to his empire and after becoming a monk he founded the Truc Lam meditation sect which later gave Yen Tu the recognition as the country’s leading centre for Buddhism.

Source: SGGP