The Thai Collectively, the Thai belong to the Austro-Asiatic language family and specifically to the Tay-Thai language group. Their ancestors migrated south from southern China at an early date and had set up numerous petty kingdoms in the region as…
Ham Rong Mountain Tourist Area Ham Rong Mountain Tourist AreaLocation: Pho Ham Rong, Thi tran Sapa, Huyen Sapa, Lao Cai Opening hours: 7am-6pm daily Ham Rong or ‘Dragon’s Jaw’ Mountain, on which Sa Pa’s radio transmitter is situated, is located…
Originally the site of a Black H’mong settlement, Sapa first came to the attention of the French in 1901. A military garrison arrived two years later and named their camp Sapa after a nearby market known as Sapa, which was…
Sapa Food Market Location: Thi tran Sapa, Huyen Sapa, Lao Cai Opening hours: 6am-10pm daily Traders have so far shunned the gleaming new space built for them next to Sapa Tourist Information Centre, preferring to carry on doing business along…
Moc Chau is well-known for the white flower field, the endless tea plantation or forest of white plum flowers. But few people know how beautiful Moc Chau is at dawn. Extra reading about Hanoi Tours, Hoi An Tours or Dalat Tours.
On the occasion of June, when the summer rains cooling the northwestern mountains is the time for beginning of a new season. It is also time for terraces fields in Yen Bai become exotic. For more informations and tours in Vietnam,…
Pass through poetic suspension bridge is to narrow roads threadlike steep up the mountain where the Lim Mong village is half-way up to the mountain. From the pass, we can see quite clearly the Thais house curled beside a stream of immense…
The city of Lang Son is connected to Hanoi by a broad, flat highway, and is more or less a sleepover stop after the stunning ride from Cao Bang, before you make your way back to the capital. Dining and…
About a 6 hour ride past the Hanoi airport north on Route 3, and north of Thai Nguyen, you’ll pass through some areas of terraced rice farming that are a harbinger of the stunning mountainous scenery to come. From the…
The town of Dien Bien Phu itself is just a wide avenue lined with Soviet-era construction. There are a few decent hotels, but mainstream tourism is far from overrunning Dien Bien, a town whose greatest moment in history was, in…