Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of January is often marked as a national holiday. In the Gregorian calendar,...

(IndochinaKings) - The small town of Hoi An is the perfect place to break your journey midway through Vietnam. Located on the country’s magnificent central coast, this one-time trading port retains an old world ambience and a rich historical quality that resulted in its recent listing as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Once known as Faifo, Hoi An was one of the orient's major trading ports in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(Indochina Records) - Dedicated to exploring the rich diversity of Laos’ ethnic minorities, the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre in Luang Prabang is a great place to begin a Southeast Asia vacation. An independent non-profit museum, the organization seeks to acquaint visitors with a better understanding of the ethnic groups that inhabit the region.

(VietKings) The dark-yellow Art Deco Phsa Thmei (New Market) is also referred to as the Central Market, a reference to its location and size. It was constructed in 1935 37. The Art deco building is shaped in the form of a cross with a nice central dome. And has four wings filled with shops selling gold and silver jewelry, antique coins, fake name-brand watches and other such items.

(IndochinaKings) Comprising of 16 islands of different sizes in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province, Con Dao National Park is one of two national parks in Viet Nam owing both forest and marine protected area.

Located nearly 140 km South of Hanoi in Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong is the oldest National Park of Vietnam established in 1962. The botanical richness of the forest is impressive as it supports a various flora species , including ancient trees with thick clusters of roots, parasitic plants and ligneous creepers.

The very first stop-over of any foreign tourist in Hanoi is always Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam (translated as Temple of Literature), which reveals the Hanoians’ spirit of study in the past!

Situated right in the heart of Hochiminh City is the most famous landmark as well as core Cathedral of the city, Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral (translated as “Nhà thờ Đức Bà Sài Gòn).

To make up for the lack of natural light, the plants are grown beneath LED lights that bathe the bunker in an eerie pink...

Established in 1638, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam ranks as one of the earliest botanical gardens still in existence, although the lofty title of “oldest” is...