Travel to Catba, Hai Phong, Vietnam

 Haiphong city leaders held a meeting with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on September 28 to consider Haiphong’s dossier seeking a UNESCO title for its Cat Ba islands.

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The meeting was an essential requirement in the approval process of the nomination for Cat Ba to become a World Natural Heritage site.

IUCN expert Peter Hitchcock introduced steps to review nominations and the Haiphong working session is the third step in the process of evaluation.

Cat Ba is nominated and championed for World Heritage Sites by Hai Phong

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IUCNs experts will visit the site and send an evaluation report to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to consider the next step.

Chairman of the Haiphong municipal People’s Committee Duong Anh Dien confirmed that the government of Vietnam and local administration pay due attention to conserving biological diversity on Cat Ba islands. 

He assured his guests that Haiphong will do as much as it can to win UNESCO recognition. 

At the meeting, representatives of the Institute of Marine Environment and Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, and the management board of Cat Ba archipelago presented the outstanding features of the heritage.

After the event, IUCN experts will make a fact-finding tour around Cat Ba archipelago until October 3. Cat Ba archipelago was recognized by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve in 2005. 

Located some 45 kilometers east of Haiphong and 150 kilometers southeast of Hanoi, Cat Ba covers more than 17,000 hectares of land and 9,200 hectares of sea. 

It boasts a typical ecological system in Vietnam, including tropical rain forests on limestone islands, mangrove forests, coral reefs, sea grass, sand beaches and mysterious caves. 

Cat Ba is home to some 2,320 different types of fauna and flora, including 740 land animals, 280 forest species, 540 seabed creatures, 200 fish species, 180 coral reef organisms, 80 sea grass species and 20 different wetland plants.

Vietnam Travel Guide For Best Vietnam 2015

When Is The Best Time For Your Vietnam Vacation?

vietnam sapa 

Vietnam stretches over 1650 km along the eastern coast of the Indochinese Peninsula( from 8° 34´ N to 23° 22´ N) with a wide range of latitudes and altitudes, so Vietnam has a remarkably diverse climate. Thanks to different climate in different areas, there are always places for your vietnam holidays.

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The North: The cold season is sometimes wet and chilly between Novermber and April when temprerature is around 60° F / 16° C. In the hot period, between May and October, the average temperature is about 86° F/ 30° C.

The Cetral: The hot season is about 2°C or 3°C hotter than th north temperature. Its rainy season falls in between September and December. Especially, the central is sometimes hit by typhoon with strong wind and heavy rain.

The South: The temperature in the south is constant all year, ranging from 77-86° F/ 25-30° C. The dry season is from November to April and the wet period from May to October.

The chinese new year of Tet is celebrated all over Vietnam in late January or early February. During this time, transport options fill up quickly and lots of restaurants and tourist sites are closed. Therefore, it is not recommended to travel to Vietnam then.

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Sapa Tour 2Days

Night1: Hanoi - Lao Cai

8.30 PM: Pick up the Guest at the hotel ,then transfer to the train station to check in the night train to Lao Cai.

                   

Day 1 Lao Cai arrival - Sa Pa - Cat Cat - Sin Chai

Arrive Lao Cai at 6.00am, the bus ride up hill to vietnam sapa  town takes over an hour giving you the stunning vistas and impressive rice terraces. Check into Summit hotel in vietnam

after your breakfast.we will start the trip to Cat Cat and Sin Chai villages of Black H’mong tribe. Visit H’mong hydro electric build by French and enjoy warterfall in Cat Cat and very beautiful scenery along the way. Then back to Sapa for lunch in our beautiful mountain view restaurant. The rest of the afternoon is free to expore the town on your own. Dinner in hotel and enjoy the night in Sapa town.

Overnight in hotel.

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Sapa tours

Day 2 Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van

After breakfast you will check out and leave your luggage in the hotel and trek down to Lao Chai village to visit the Tay and Dzay tribes, keep going along the bottom of Muong Hoa valley to get to Ta Van village which is the most beautiful ethnic village in the area. Have lunch in Dzay family. Tranfer back to Sapa by motorbike/ jeep, get fresh with  shower in the hotel ,then head to Lao Cai station for night train

Arrival in Ha Noi at 5 am at Tran Quy Cap station. End of trip.

    

Price: 135 $USD /1PAX.

Including: Soft sleeper train A/C,and Jeep or motor as mentioned in the tour,room in two star hotel in the center,meal as mentioned,entrance fees,english-speaking guide,.

Not including: Drinks,Personal expense,

A wonderful destination for your holiday to travel in Quy Nhon City

Quy Nhon  is a coastal city of Binh Dinh –a province of Central Vietnam, people here are very kind and friendly. Quy Nhon is famous for landscapes as Genh Rang (Gềnh Ráng), Bai Trung beach (Bãi Trứng) where Nam Phuong queen used to bath, the next is Trung Luong beach, Han Mac Tu tomb – the famous poet of Vietnam lived in beginning 20th century, and many more other places.

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Attractions in Quy Nhon

  Beaches. You can bath at Quy Nhon beach (in the city), or come to Trung Luong beach, very beautiful, very clean, pristine with white sand and blue sea . Seafood here is cheap and fresh, tasty. 

Quang Trung museum located in Tay Son district, 50km (over 30miles) from the city, go along 19-highway. You can also see martial arts dance at here, about $15/ticket.

Quy Nhon double tower, 2 ancient towers of Cham ethnic, is near Tran Hung Dao street, gateway into the city. 

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Thap Thap Di Da (Thập Tháp Di Đà), an ancient pagoda which was built 300 years ago. The pagoda is located in Van Thuan, An Nhon district, near Phu Cat airport, 28km (19miles) from the city. 

Son Long pagoda(or Hang pagoda) is an ancient pagoda which was built 300 years ago. The pagoda is located in Nhon Binh ward – Quy Nhon city. 

Ham Ho tourist resortis in Tay Son district, 20km (12miles) from Quy Nhon. Ham Ho is located in the middle of Kut river, famous for majestic and charming nature. 

Eo Gio (wind strait) is 20km (12miles) from Quy Nhon city. This is the most beautiful and majestic landscapes in Binh Dinh province.

Hanoi’s newest museum 2015

Hanoi’s newest museum opened in 2010 as part of the city’s 1000th birthday celebrations. In architectural terms this is far and away the country’s most ambitious museum project. The inverted pyramid design is visually striking and is surprisingly functional. It seems to have been inspired by some of the more flamboyant modern creations in Beijing and Shanghai and was designed by German architects GMP.

Focused on the history of vietnam hanoi, for now at least, the collection is poor and not worth the effort and cost of making the half hour journey from downtown Hanoi. Much of the collection is unidentified or poorly captioned. 

The massive investment in this building might have been better spent on improving the curatorial quality of the city’s existing museums. There are plans to improve the collection and the information. This can’t happen quickly enough. 

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In the meantime, the building has the architectural world talking in Vietnam.

Address: Pham Hung street, Tu Liem district, Hanoi

Opening hours: Everyday except for Monday from 8:00-11:30 and from 13:30-17:00

Entrance fee: free

Travel to Ho Chi Minh city

Ho Chi Minh City is the business and financial hub of Vietnam, with a prominent history going back hundreds of years. The Khmers originally settled the region, with the Vietnamese taking over in the 17th century.

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The French conquered Saigon, as it was then known, in 1859, and made it the capital of Cochin China in 1862. They extended and embellished the city with broad boulevards and elegant architecture. At the peak of the Vietnam War in 1969 the city had 4.5 million inhabitants. They were all evacuated when Saigon and the rest of the South fell to North Vietnam in 1975.

The city has recovered in the 30 years since then; the current population is over 7 million. It was renamed Ho Chi Minh City, after the spiritual leader of Vietnamese Communism, but the inhabitants were so reluctant to adopt the new name that the authorities compromised; the official name is Ho Chi Minh City but the city centre is still called Saigon. The Vietnamese government may be Communist, but it understands well the importance of the tourism industry to the economy, and has promoted the country vigorously.

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