Dalat’s Hung King Temples

One of the Hung Kings Temples at the site

Ten kilometers from Dalat City on the road to HCMC is the beautiful Prenn Waterfall and a temple site to commemorate the Hung Kings. The temples by skilled artisans from Hue in 2004 for local people that can’t travel to Phu Tho Province in the lunar March for the Hung King’s death anniversary.

A tourist looks at the stone carving of hero Nguyen Trai - Photos: Duy Anh

The temples are one of the1,420 relic sites related to Hung Kings from the north to the south of Vietnam. On the Hung King day, people walk up the 500 meter path to the site, with lower, middle and upper temples which are replicas of the original temples in Phu Tho.

In front of the Upper Temple is Lac Long Quan-Au Co Park which has the six-meter high statues of Lac Long Quan and Au Co, the father and mother of Vietnamese people. A hundred rocks symbolize the eggs of Au Co Mother from the legend. The park also contains 18 large stones that are carved with the faces of national heroes such as Hai Ba Trung, Ba Trieu, Ngo Quyen, Tran Hung Dao, Le Loi, Ho Chi Minh.

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Con Dao, Ha Long among top ten tourist destinations

Vietnam’s Con Dao island in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau
has been listed among top ten the world’s best and romantic destinations
for 2011 by the UK’s Lonely Planet magazine.

Other islands in the list are Socotra from Yemen, Torres Strait from
Australia, Yacyana from Japan, Iles du Salut from Guiana (France),
Ulleungdo from the Republic of Korea, San Blas archipelago from Panama,
Penghu from Taiwan (China), Bay archipelago and Hog island from Honduras
and Ssese from Uganda.

According to the Saigon
Travel Service Company (Saigontourist), in the wedding season this year,
Con Dao also became one of the most popular honeymoon destinations for
young couples.

The magazine also listed Ha Long Bay,
in the northern province of Quang Ninh, as one of the 10 most
outstanding coastal destinations for tourists.

The other
nine locations are the Norwegian Fjords, the Amazon River, the Franklin
River in Australia, the Quetico Provincial Park in Canada, the Kerala
backwaters in India, New Zealand's Milford Sound Bay, the Greek islands,
Disco Bay in Greenland, and the Galapagos Archipelago off the coast of
Ecuador.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism
reported that about 500 ships ply the waters of Ha Long Bay, carrying
millions of tourists every year. Quang Ninh has attracted 5.3 million
visitors so far this year, 2.5 million of whom visited Ha Long Bay./.

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Adventure hike in Cat Tien

The Viet Adventure crew climb to the top of Green Hill Photo: Thai Hang

Only 170 kilometers from HCMC, Cat Tien is an ideal piece of the wild for an adventure trip.

At more than 71,000 hectares, Cat Tien National Park has plenty of untamed places that are off the beaten track.

Hiking or biking are the best ways to travel on the forest tracks. The park has important conservation value because of the rainforest, mountains, river and rich biodiversity that attracts thousands of tourists and scientists from all over the world.

Instead of risking it alone, the team at Viet Adventure, organizes hiking and biking trips into the Cat Tien jungle with a back-up crew to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Catch the bus from HCMC in the afternoon to the national park in Tan Phu Commune, Dong Nai Province, arriving in plenty of time for a good night’s sleep in accommodation at the park headquarters. The hike starts early the next day to avoid the mid-day heat and jungle humidity.

The destination is Green Hill; to get there the track goes past ethnic
minority Ma and S’Tieng villages then continues through a thick bamboo jungle following one of the local tribe’s tracks. It’s likely to pass some of the minorities as they go about their business in the forest and see some deer and birdlife but the going is not easy. The tour arrives at the top of Green Hill, an inactive volcano over 300 meters above sea level in time for lunch. Before getting to the top, there’s a cave containing thousands of bats.

Another village path is taken for the trip down, which is a scramble over the loose red basalt soil. The scenery is different with streams, tall grass and bamboo.

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Adventure hike in Cat Tien

The Viet Adventure crew climb to the top of Green Hill Photo: Thai Hang

Only 170 kilometers from HCMC, Cat Tien is an ideal piece of the wild for an adventure trip.

At more than 71,000 hectares, Cat Tien National Park has plenty of untamed places that are off the beaten track.

Hiking or biking are the best ways to travel on the forest tracks. The park has important conservation value because of the rainforest, mountains, river and rich biodiversity that attracts thousands of tourists and scientists from all over the world.

Instead of risking it alone, the team at Viet Adventure, organizes hiking and biking trips into the Cat Tien jungle with a back-up crew to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Catch the bus from HCMC in the afternoon to the national park in Tan Phu Commune, Dong Nai Province, arriving in plenty of time for a good night’s sleep in accommodation at the park headquarters. The hike starts early the next day to avoid the mid-day heat and jungle humidity.

The destination is Green Hill; to get there the track goes past ethnic
minority Ma and S’Tieng villages then continues through a thick bamboo jungle following one of the local tribe’s tracks. It’s likely to pass some of the minorities as they go about their business in the forest and see some deer and birdlife but the going is not easy. The tour arrives at the top of Green Hill, an inactive volcano over 300 meters above sea level in time for lunch. Before getting to the top, there’s a cave containing thousands of bats.

Another village path is taken for the trip down, which is a scramble over the loose red basalt soil. The scenery is different with streams, tall grass and bamboo.

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Adventure hike in Cat Tien

The Viet Adventure crew climb to the top of Green Hill Photo: Thai Hang

Only 170 kilometers from HCMC, Cat Tien is an ideal piece of the wild for an adventure trip.

At more than 71,000 hectares, Cat Tien National Park has plenty of untamed places that are off the beaten track.

Hiking or biking are the best ways to travel on the forest tracks. The park has important conservation value because of the rainforest, mountains, river and rich biodiversity that attracts thousands of tourists and scientists from all over the world.

Instead of risking it alone, the team at Viet Adventure, organizes hiking and biking trips into the Cat Tien jungle with a back-up crew to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Catch the bus from HCMC in the afternoon to the national park in Tan Phu Commune, Dong Nai Province, arriving in plenty of time for a good night’s sleep in accommodation at the park headquarters. The hike starts early the next day to avoid the mid-day heat and jungle humidity.

The destination is Green Hill; to get there the track goes past ethnic
minority Ma and S’Tieng villages then continues through a thick bamboo jungle following one of the local tribe’s tracks. It’s likely to pass some of the minorities as they go about their business in the forest and see some deer and birdlife but the going is not easy. The tour arrives at the top of Green Hill, an inactive volcano over 300 meters above sea level in time for lunch. Before getting to the top, there’s a cave containing thousands of bats.

Another village path is taken for the trip down, which is a scramble over the loose red basalt soil. The scenery is different with streams, tall grass and bamboo.

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Adventure hike in Cat Tien

The Viet Adventure crew climb to the top of Green Hill Photo: Thai Hang

Only 170 kilometers from HCMC, Cat Tien is an ideal piece of the wild for an adventure trip.

At more than 71,000 hectares, Cat Tien National Park has plenty of untamed places that are off the beaten track.

Hiking or biking are the best ways to travel on the forest tracks. The park has important conservation value because of the rainforest, mountains, river and rich biodiversity that attracts thousands of tourists and scientists from all over the world.

Instead of risking it alone, the team at Viet Adventure, organizes hiking and biking trips into the Cat Tien jungle with a back-up crew to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Catch the bus from HCMC in the afternoon to the national park in Tan Phu Commune, Dong Nai Province, arriving in plenty of time for a good night’s sleep in accommodation at the park headquarters. The hike starts early the next day to avoid the mid-day heat and jungle humidity.

The destination is Green Hill; to get there the track goes past ethnic
minority Ma and S’Tieng villages then continues through a thick bamboo jungle following one of the local tribe’s tracks. It’s likely to pass some of the minorities as they go about their business in the forest and see some deer and birdlife but the going is not easy. The tour arrives at the top of Green Hill, an inactive volcano over 300 meters above sea level in time for lunch. Before getting to the top, there’s a cave containing thousands of bats.

Another village path is taken for the trip down, which is a scramble over the loose red basalt soil. The scenery is different with streams, tall grass and bamboo.

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Thai tops foreign visitors to Hue

The number of Thai visitors to the ancient capital city of Hue has
increased from 4.7 percent in 2005 to 24 percent in 2010, ranking first
in the list of foreign arrivals to the city.

As many as 6,000 Thai tourists arrived in Hue in a single day this year.

This is the result of the close cooperation between Vietnam , Laos
and Thailand in improving transport infrastructure, expanding trade
exchanges across the borders and reforming migration procedures to
facilitate tourism services.

Especially, the East-West
Economic Corridor stretching through Myanmar , Thailand and Laos
to Vietnam has opened up a lot of economic cooperation opportunities
for member countries and the East sea bordered region, particularly in
the tourism sector.

As of early December this year,
the central province of Thua Thien-Hue had received 1.36 million
visitors, a year-on-year increase of 11.7 percent, of which the number
of foreign visitors to Hue city increased by 7.9 percent. The
province’s tourism industry earned 774 billion VND, up 20.4 percent as
compared to the same period last year./.

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