The charm of Mot Islet in Nha Trang

Coming to the islet, around nine kilometers from the mainland, visitors can admire what can be described as a stunning picture of nature, enjoy fresh seafood, and join various activities including snorkeling, motor-boating, fishing and parasailing.

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Tourists to Mot Islet should not miss the chance to watch the coral anemone reef and flocks of fish in various sizes and colors under the sea.

As the coral reefs are near the shore, those who do not want to dive can admire the beauty of the coral and fish by sitting on bamboo basket boats with their bottom made of transparent glass.

Evening clouds on Co To Island

Co To Island in Quang Ninh Province (travel in Vietnam) has the most beautiful and romantic beach in Vietnam with transparent blue sea, white smooth sand, golden sunshine, and green mountains and forest.

Tourists who have never been to Co To (Vietnam tour) cannot imagine how fascinating and charmingly beautiful it is. Visiting Co To, tourists have a chance to become one with nature in a relaxing and fresh environment of blue clean seawater, and visit primitive forests, the impressive lighthouse of Co To, Ho Chi Minh’s Monument, Co To Pier, fishing village and natural reefs and islets.

Co To Lighthouse is the symbol of the island, which offers the most beautiful panorama of Ha Long Bay. From the lighthouse, tourists have a great view of a breathtaking picture of the Northern Gulf with unique formation of small islets on emerald water of the bay, the pristine white color of beaches, the lush green color of forests, and yellow rice-fields. On the way to the hill where this lighthouse is located, tourists have an opportunity to go through a romantic forest with a variety of alluring flowers blooming along the path, not to mention listening to the melody of the forest composed by thousands of rare species of birds.

In Co To, you might feel free to go in the clean water while watching flocks of seagulls flying above or wandering around the beach to look for their food. With many beaches in Co To, you should never worry about finding a good spot for a relaxing afternoon.

HCMC’s pedestrian street gets free Wi-Fi

Free Wi-Fi is now available on the pedestrian-only Nguyen Hue Street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, news website VnExpress reported.

The service, which has up to 1-gigabit speed, will blanket the whole street around-the-clock, the report quoted the provider Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) as saying.

                         
                                   VNPT said it is still working to improve the coverage.

Local authorities are also preparing to install 160 wooden benches along the street. The benches were made from timber of large, century-old trees in front of the Saigon Opera House, which were felled last July to make room for the city’s first subway station.

The US$19.7 million Nguyen Hue pedestrian street has become a new tourist attraction in HCMC downtown since it opened to the public on April 29.

Last Sunday, the city inaugurated a new statue of President Ho Chi Minh on the street to celebrate his 125th birthday.

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Visiting Dao San kermis

Opened from the early hours of every Sunday, Dao San in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau (travel in Vietnam) is one of the typical kermises.

Located around 50 kilometers from the center of Lai Chau Province (Vietnam travel), the kermis gathers many people from the ethnic minority groups of Mong, Ha Nhi, Dao and Thai who come from the province’s Phong Tho District and create a multi-color picture of the area thanks to their colorful traditional costumes.

Dao San kermis is not only a wholesale market for trading agricultural products but a place for cultural exchanges among ethic people. Therefore, it is always filled up with laughter and talk by both adults and children.

Vietnam’s Son Doong named among places out of this world

Bored Panda, a website for art, design and photography community, just released a list of 30 heavens on earth including Son Doong, the world’s largest cave in central Vietnam.

The list of “unbelievable places” received 175 submissions and Son Doong, or Mountain River, has been voted by many readers, ranking at number 8.

“These out-of-this-world photos will make you feel like you’re on another planet,” said the post on the site, which was started in 2009 to provide a platform for artists to turn their stories into viral content.

Son Doong (travel in Vietnam) contains at least 150 individual grottoes, a dense subterranean jungle, several underground rivers.

It became known as the world’s largest cave in 2009, stretching five kilometers long, 150 meters high and 200 meters wide.

A local man discovered the cave for the first time in 1991 and British excavators helped put it on the world map.

The cave just won more global fame recently after breathtaking images of it appeared on the US popular talk show “Good Morning America” last week.

Coming first in Bored Panda’s list of exotic destinations is Glowworms Cave, which looks like a starry night sky in New Zealand, followed by Tianzi Mountains in China, Pamukkale (cotton castle) in Turkey, and Emerald Ice on Baikal Lake, Russia.

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