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Foreign visitors to Vietnam rise sharply during Tet
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VietNamNet Bridge – The Noi Bai International Airport received over 1,000 foreign holidaymakers during the first three days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, according to the airport's Border Customs Agency.

Travelers were mostly from Europe and overseas Vietnamese who visited their homeland for the Tet holiday.

On the occasion, the airport's 82 flights brought nearly 8,000 visitors to countries and territories worldwide.

Meanwhile, the number of tourists to Hue on these days increased sharply, reaching about 50,000, some 20,000 higher than last year.

A large number of arrivals came from European countries, Japan and Thailand.

The ancient capital city celebrated the Tet festival with a wide range of activities and festivals launched in different localities, opening an array of this year's cultural, sports and tourism events to welcome the National Tourism Year to be organised in the city in 2012.

Tourism destinations of the Hue's relic site opened for free during the first three days of the Lunar New Year.




Flower Street attracts 800,000 residents, visitors

The HCM City's annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street attracted nearly 800,000 local and foreign visitors during the Tet holiday (Lunar New Year), organisers said.

After it opened on January 31 (December 28 in the lunar calendar), the flower street welcomed more than 100,000 city residents as well as visitors from neighbouring provinces and foreign countries each day, said Tran Hung Viet, deputy general director of Saigontourist and head of the 2011 Tet Festival organisation board.

This year's flower street, in its eighth annual edition, was themed Tam Cao Moi (New Heights), reflecting the city's aspiration to post greater socio-economic achievements.

Apart from floral bonanza in different spring themes, highlights this year included the 5m-high Cau Mua (Worshipping for Good Crops) Flower Tower that visitors could climb and get an overview of the whole street.

The flower street was closed for clearing on Sunday and reopened to traffic on February 7.


VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

[jackbl]

A quiet beach resort somewhere outside HCMC.......

Mui Ne - a dream resort
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As my niece Yogita was expecting her friend Anu to arrive from Singapore during the Tet holidays, she searched for the nearest place to take a break during Tet and finally settled on Mui Ne.


The websites on Mui Ne had loads of offers, but every inquiry was returned with a polite refusal ‘closed for Tet’. The hotels that looked inviting and tempting with beach and water sport activities were full for the entire Tet season. Finally we managed to find a wonderful website of the Sealink country club resort. We were able to get a large family suite for the three of us. The next step was how to get there. Again the website of Sinh café popped up and off we trotted to their office on De Tham Street and booked a comfortable car along with a Vietnamese guide.

Next day at 5am we left for Mui Ne and made the journey there in less than 5 hours. We were told that it normally takes less time but because of the Tet holiday season there was excessive traffic heading out of HCMC.

The Sealinks hotel came as a delightful surprise. Lovely laid out gardens, open spaces, three large pools, a golf course and cheerful rooms. The staff was warm and welcoming and as soon as we had checked into our suite we headed straight to the dining room for a well laid out buffet lunch. Since I am a vegetarian I am constantly worried if I would get anything to eat. Knowing Mui Ne to be a beach resort I was warned in HCMC by my colleagues that I would have to turn into a fishetarian to survive there!

However, the spread was so well planned that it could have been laid out for vegetarians as well. The charming stewardess Ms Vung, still added an extra delicious pasta dish with broccoli especially for me even though I found the buffet lunch more than sufficient.


We headed to the white dunes after lunch and sand dune gliding which was fun. We stopped briefly on the way to see the ancient Cham temples. Later in the evening we strolled along the very happening Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, browsing at shops and taking in the mood of the holiday crowd. Of course, since we had come to a beach resort we wanted to walk on a beach! So we asked our guide to drive us to a beach. He decided to take us to a beach which was full of boats of fishermen getting ready to take their boats to sea. We were able to take some stunning pictures of the boats and the setting sun. We walked along the beach which we found was full of sea shells that we could not avoid walking on them. We even collected some to bring back home. As we were walking on the beach we saw a charming Vietnamese woman making hot Banh Khot. That was such an irresistible sight that we had to stop in her little shop and eat some. I even ate some with fish sauce! They were so delicious, I forgot I was a vegetarian!



We stopped at an Indian restaurant for dinner and at 10.30 at night could not refuse the temptation of a foot massage. The street was so alive well into mid night!

The next morning we all relaxed in the lovely waters of the hotel pool, had a sumptuous breakfast laid out in the banquet hall of the hotel and soon checked out of the hotel as we had planned a visit to the Takou Mountain before retuning to HCMC. We went to the mountain by cable car which was quite an adventure and as the Buddha statue on the top of the mountain is further away we had to walk some distance. It was 4 in the evening by the time we reached the cable car post for our return trip down the hill. Much to our dismay there was a crowd of about 200 people already waiting in queue for their turn. That would have been quite a wait but the local police was so helpful, they saw to it that the young and boisterous crowd did not break the line and we finally reached the base by 5pm. Knowing how late it was getting we headed straight back to HCMC. It was a Saturday evening and fortunately the roads were clear and our return journey only took us 4 hours without a stop.

Abha

[jackbl]

Wishing everyone here Ngay Tinh Nhan Vui Ve!

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Wishing everyone here Ngay Tinh Nhan Vui Ve!

kg dc vui ve tai vi kg co con gai

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

kg dc vui ve tai vi kg co con gai

Ban, dung noi dua voi toi. Ban co quen rat nhieu con gai, bg lai noi k co, ai tin???

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Ban, dung noi dua voi toi. Ban co quen rat nhieu con gai, bg lai noi k co, ai tin???

tai vi toi xao con gai nhieu nhieu , con gai nao cung bo toi roi.
toi chi co bx o vn thoi...

[SureScore]

At least can understand such tieng viet.

[情感王子]

Originally Posted by SureScore

At least can understand such tieng viet.

the a b c of tieng viet

[v.killers]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Wishing everyone here Ngay Tinh Nhan Vui Ve!

Kg co con gai vui cai gi ha e?

[v.killers]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

tai vi toi xao con gai nhieu nhieu, con gai nao cung bo toi roi.
toi chi co bx o vn thoi...

Bo cai dau em, em chi thich lam tinh voi gai thoi, ai kg bo em?

Dung xao con gai nua nhe, e oi, co mot ngay se bi bx bo luon !!!

[v.killers]

Originally Posted by 情感王子

e ngay nao cung ranh. tai vi e mat di choi roi ma

Em ranh thi di GL kiem gai lam bd di...

[v.killers]

Originally Posted by evoking88

nice one hahaha

cam on....

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by v.killers

Bo cai dau em, em chi thich lam tinh voi gai thoi, ai kg bo em?

Dung xao con gai nua nhe, e oi, co mot ngay se bi bx bo luon !!!

troi!!! em kg muon bi bx bo nen bg em lam ng tot ma.

[v.killers]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

troi!!! em kg muon bi bx bo nen bg em lam ng tot ma.

Troi oi....em cung co so ha? Luc truoc kg co hay kg biet suy nghi ha?

Bay gio moi lam nguoi tot ha?

Chua ket hon la so roi, lam sao day

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by v.killers

Chua ket hon la so roi, lam sao day

e bi bx e bat nhieu lan o jc om gai, bat 1 lan con gai nt e xin tien, bat 1 lan co con gai o ben e, bat 1 lan di ks voi ban cua ban bx...
bx e van tha thu e... suy nghi lai, e lam rat nhieu chuyen kg tot voi bx e roi, bg cung phai biet suy nghi roi...

e kg dc mat bx cua e... tai vi bx cua e la so1...