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Vol 1 No.2 | 12-July-2005

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Hello Kelly, We really enjoyed our wonderful Vietnam vacation adventure. It was exciting and fun and the people were all so nice to us. Vietnam is such a beautiful country and we are pleased we got to see so much of the whole country from the delta to the border with China. The tour, hotels, drivers, and guides were all excellent. Thanks so much for the first class tour. We will tell our friends. Hopefully we can arrange another trip next summer. Thanks for the very nice dinner. We enjoyed meeting you and your husband. Good Luck, Bob and Joanne Anterhaus

RENAISSANCE RIVERSIDE HOTEL

Highlights
a.. Expressive yet functional, classically styled with touches of
whimsy in warm, vibrant colors
a.. Artfully balanced with just the right amenities to accommodate
both business and leisure guests

Guest Room Information (may vary by room type)

    General Room Amenities
    a.. Air conditioning
    b.. Alarm clock
    c.. Bottled water
    d.. Coffee maker/tea service

4 DAYS AROUND SAIGON
& SHOPPING

5 DAYS BUON MA THUOT-KONTUM TREKKING TOUR


5 DAYS STOPOVER IN HANOI & HALONG BAY

Visit Reunification Palace- the most facinating sight in HoChiMinh city. Have an opportunity to get the unique experience of guerillas living and fighting underground during the war (a crawl through 50 – 100 meters out 200 km of the tunnel system is unforgettable) in Cu Chi tunnels. One day is free for shopping at Diamond Plaza, Zen Plaza, Ben Thanh or Binh Tay market where you can collect the different favourite goods, lots of typical oriental products or buying things as gifts and souvenirs at many shops, especially in districts 1 and 3.	Five days trekking in Central Highland to minority villages where you stay with ethnic minority people to explore their interesting culture and custom. Enjoy the Gong music and dancing performance and taste “Can” wine- the traditional drink. Take an hour- elephant ride to M'lieng village, have a piragua row on Lak lake to visit the M'nong hill tribe village of Jun. Visit Catholic wooden church in Kontum.	Seeing the famous Water Puppet show at Thang Long theater. It is a unique art which has it origin in the delta of the Red river in the tenth century. Five hours on boat cruise you will be rewarded with some of the most spectacular and memorable sightseeing in Halong bay. You have one full free day for shopping in Hanoi. Most stores are concentrated in the ancient quarter and there are lots of things to buy at very reasonable prices. Hang Gai is the main shopping street where every variety of tourist item, from silk clothing to embroidered pictures to lacquer ware and ethnic handicrafts, can be found.

News

Flamboyant flower, vivid memories

The flamboyant is a species of flower special to Vietnam. It blooms in the summer season from the middle of May. A flamboyant flower has red and thin petals and long pistils.
It does not have a scent but it attracts people through its bright red color. However, if it is planted in hotter regions, its color becomes deeper.

The flamboyant tree, which has a tall trunk and wide canopy, can be seen throughout Vietnam, from the northern delta to Ca Mau. Flamboyant are usually planted in schoolyards because they offer shade from the sun. When they start to bloom students know their summer holidays are not far off.

Flamboyant can stand the summer heat, so they are often planted in coastal cities.

When visiting Nha Trang or Haiphong in the summer, it is wonderful sitting in the shade of the flamboyant. Its flower has become the symbol of Haiphong City, and the city has the name, City of the Flamboyant Flower.

When the summer season is coming, students in all grades gather the flowers and put them in notebooks in the shape of butterflies as a souvenir of the year's memories, friends and teachers. The flower is also a meaningful souvenir for people to present to each other.

Dalat City has a new species of flamboyant flower with a purple color, enriching the beauty of that city. However, the presence of bright red flamboyant flowers around schoolyards makes it closely linked with the childhood of Vietnamese. Adults have beautiful memories of schooldays with the flamboyant flowers foremost in their thoughts.

( Saigon Times)

Hue Festival to promote traditional handicraft

A festival on traditional handicraft will be held in the former imperial city of Hue from July 15th-17th to promote its traditional embroidery and cpalm-leaf conical hat making.

The People's Committee of Thua Thien-Hue has assigned relevant local agencies to conduct a survey on the current situation of the two occupations in order to encourage their development. At the festival, reputed embroider Le Van Kinh will showcase some elaborate embroidery techniques, while artisan Trinh Bach will reveal the secrets of Hue royal costumes.

The festival will offer tours of traditional handicraft villages such as Thuan Loc and Phu Hoa embroidery villages, Cam Tu embroidery street and Phu Cam and Da Le conical hat villages. Especially, an embroidery product produced only in Hue artisans, which has been named in the Vietnam Record Book, will be auctioned at the festival.

( Vietnam News)

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