Author: Nguyen Phuong

Despite being tired of food in hot days, when you see the strange basket here, tourists will get back their eating inspiration. This is an appetizer of a restaurant at…

The Giong festival is a traditional festival that is annually held in many parts of Hanoi to commemorate and praise victories of mythical hero Saint Giong who is one of…

The Dong Da festival annually takes place on the fifth of January (lunar calendar) at Dong Da mound, Quang Trung ward, Dong Da district, Hanoi. This festival aims to commemorate…

Tet Trung Thu is one of the most important festival in Asian culture in general and in Vietnam in particular. It’s also called reunion festival or Children’s festival in Vietnam and…

The first thing a tourist might notice when setting the first steps in the city of Hanoi must be the traffic. Yes, it’s not a new topic but an open…

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, has its own charms in each season, but for people who live in or once visited this city, autumn is the best period of the…

Dong Ho painting, full name Đông Hồ folk woodcut painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province). With the…

Every summer, in a corner of Hanoi, lotuses bloom covering a part of West lake with their bright pink. Being one of the biggest city in Vietnam, people would usually…

Every year when the autumn visit this city, Hanoi seems to take off it cover and turn to a romantic city. Autumn is a time when the soul turns poetic, mesmerized…

Constructed in 1900 by French architect Auguste Henri Vildieu, the mansion was initially the accommodation for Indochina’s Governer-General. After the Geneve agreement, the building was made to be the residence…