Travel to Vietnam: Food, Culture, Music and beautiful places

Vietnam's tourism is considered by the State of Vietnam as a spearhead economic sector because it believes that the country has a diverse and rich tourism capacity. In 2019, Vietnam's tourism industry set a miracle for the first time with 18 million international visitors, an increase of 16.2% compared to 2018. In the period from 2015-2019, the number of international visitors to Vietnam increased by 2.3 times from 7.9 million to 18 million, the average growth rate is 22.7% per year.

Travel to vietnam - Vietnam is constantly in the group of countries with the fastest tourist growth rate in the world. In 2019, Vietnam's tourism received the World's Leading Manufacturing Destination award from the World Travel Awards and the World's Best Golf Destination at the World Golf Awards. Along with that, the World Travel Awards also honored Vietnam as Asia's Leading Destination for 2 consecutive years 2018-2019, Asia's Leading Cultural Destination 2019, Asia's Leading Culinary Destination 2019.

Travel to Vietnam: How about Vietnamese culture and society?

Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups, each with its own characteristics of culture, customs and lifestyle. The tourism industry and localities have made great efforts to build a number of unique tourist attractions, such as Sa Pa community tourism, Ban Lat tourism in Mai Chau...

The birth and development of Vietnamese folk theater is associated with agricultural life, water puppetry is a folk art of farmers working on wet fields in the Red River Delta, often performed during festivals. In summer, during leisure time, water puppetry is an art that combines the arts of sculpture, lacquer, music, painting and literature.

Along with water puppetry are the arts of cheo, tuong and cai luong singing, contributing to enriching the Vietnamese traditional theater background. From the beginning of the 20th century, along with the influences of Western theater, Vietnam's modern theater art was supplemented with the arts of drama, comedy, circus, magic, dance, ballet, opera, etc. .. Currently, a number of art units have been put into service for tourists such as Hanoi water puppetry, Bac Lieu Don ca tai tu, Vietnam Cheo Theatre, Ninh Binh Cheo Theatre, and Hanoi Cheo Theatre.

Vietnamese music

Travel to vietnam to listen the best music. Vietnamese folk music also has a long tradition, starting with chau van, quan ho, ca tru, vi singing, folk songs, Vong co, royal music, etc. folk music of other ethnic groups such as singing of the Tay people, singing of Sli of the Nung people, singing of Khan of the Ede people, singing of umbrellas of the Khmer... Along with other modern arts, music background Modern Vietnamese music from the 1930s was formed and developed to this day, known as Vietnamese new music with pre-war music, red music, love song 1954-1975, yellow music, overseas music and young music.

However, from more than 20 years of tourism development, Vietnam still has not had a stage, national performing arts theater large enough to introduce to international tourists, to diversify tourism products. . Except for water puppetry, there is currently a small stage in Hanoi and a Golden Dragon water puppet stage in Ho Chi Minh City.

Beautiful place in Vietnam

Vietnam has many beautiful landscapes, mountains, rivers, lakes, lagoons, caves, and many beautiful beaches.

Currently, Vietnam has 33 national parks including Ba Be, Bai Tu Long, Hoang Lien, Tam Dao, Xuan Son, Ba Vi, Cat Ba, Cuc Phuong, Xuan Thuy, Bach Ma, Ben En, Phong Nha-Ke Bang, Pu Mat, Vu Quang, Bidoup Nui Ba, Chu Mom Ray, Chu Yang Sin, Kon Ka Kinh, Yok Don, Con Dao, Lo Go Xa Mat, Cape Ca Mau, Nui Chua, Phu Quoc, Phuoc Binh, Tram Chim, U Minh Ha, U Minh Thuong, Ta Dung.

Vietnam has 400 sources of hot water from 40-120 degrees. Many springs have quite good infrastructure such as: Dam Rong, Lam Dong natural hot springs; Kim Boi hot spring in Hoa Binh, Binh Chau hot spring in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Kenh Ga hot spring in Ninh Binh, Quang Hanh hot spring in Quang Ninh, Thanh Thuy hot spring in Phu Tho. (travel to vietnam)

Tam Coc - Bich Dong in Ninh Binh

Vietnam caves are mainly located in the northern half of the country due to the concentration of many limestone mountains. The cave system in Vietnam is usually caves located in limestone mountains with a very developed karst terrain. Vietnam's three world natural heritages, Ha Long Bay, Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park and Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, are all scenic spots with famous caves. Until 2010, in Quang Binh alone, there were 300 caves in Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park. Ninh Binh province has 400 caves, of which more than 100 caves are concentrated in the world heritage complex Trang An - Tam Coc - Bich Dong. Currently, the total number of caves in Vietnam has been discovered up to nearly 1000 caves. Although there are many caves in Vietnam, the number of caves used for tourism purposes is very small. The most typical are: Phong Nha cave (Quang Binh), Huong Tich cave (Hanoi), Trang An cave, Tam Coc - Bich Dong, Dich Long cave, Van Trinh cave, Thien Ha cave (Ninh Binh), Pac cave Bo (Cao Bang), Tam Thanh cave (Lang Son), Son Moc Huong cave (Son La), caves in Ha Long Bay (Quang Ninh)...(travel to vietnam)

Vietnam ranks 27th out of 156 coastal countries in the world with 125 beaches, most of which are beautiful beaches. Vietnam is one of 12 countries with the most beautiful bays in the world, Ha Long Bay and Nha Trang Bay.

As of 2003 Vietnam has about 3500 reservoirs with a capacity greater than 0.2 million m3. Only 1976 lakes with a capacity of more than 1 million m3, accounting for 55.9% with a total capacity of 24.8 billion m3. Among the above lakes, 10 are managed by the power sector with a total capacity of 19 billion m3. There are 44 provinces and cities out of 63 provinces in Vietnam that have reservoirs. The province with the most lakes is Nghe An (249 lakes), Ha Tinh (166 lakes), Thanh Hoa (123 lakes), Phu Tho (118 lakes), Dak Lak (116 lakes) and Binh Dinh (108 lakes). Travel to vietnam. Some famous lakes in Vietnam have been exploited for tourism such as: West Lake, Hoan Kiem Lake, Dai Lai Lake, Quan Son Lake, Suoi Hai Lake (Hanoi); Ba Be Lake (Bac Kan); Cam Son Lake (Bac Giang); Dong Chuong lake, Dong Thai lake, Yen Thang lake, Mac lake (Ninh Binh); Tuyen Lam lake, Than Tho lake (Da Lat,...)

Wish you have a happy trip to Vietnam!