THE SOUTHERN FRUIT FESTIVAL Monday, May 13th, 2013 - 7:56 AM

 

Southern Fruit Festival 2013 will be held from June 1-12 in the Suoi Tien tourist site, District 9, Ho Chi MInh City, Vietnam.

The Southern Fruit Festival has become a popular cultural tourism activity honouring the agricultural values of the southern region in peculiar and Vietnam in general since 2004.

Nam Cat Tien National Park Thursday, May 9th, 2013 - 2:59 PM

 Location: The Cat Tien National Park located in the three provinces of Dong Nai, Lam Dong, and Binh Phuoc and approximately 150km from north-east of Ho Chi Minh City.

 Characteristic: Nam Cat Tien National Park is one of Vietnams most important and largest National Parks covered 74,000 Hectares of lowland forest and swamp and is home to various kinds of animals.

The park includes evergreen tropical and deciduous forest. Many kinds of species are found in Nam Cat Tien consisting of Dipterocarpaceae, Fabaceae and Lythraceae. 40% of the park comprises bamboo woodland, and the remaining 10% farmland, wetlands and grassland.

The fauna of the park is impressive. There are numerous birds and mammals live in the park such as Javan Rhinos (one of only two populations in the world), Asian Elephants, and Sun Bears. Gaur still persists in the area. Some accounts also list Indochinese Tigers, Leopards, Clouded Leopards, Dholes and Asiatic black bear. The park also holds hosts of smaller mammal species, including Yellow-cheeked Gibbons, Silvery Langurs, Crab-eating Macaques, Pygmy Slow Loris, as well as civets, mouse deer, and treeshrews. Sadly, banteng, kouprey, and Wild Asian Water Buffalo no longer occur in Cat Tien.

It also has impressive bird species such as: peafowl, Siamese fireback, endemic Germain's peacock-pheasant, endemic red-vented barbet, and blue rumped pittas, milky stork, grey-faced tit babbler, woodpeckers, and a wide variety of resident and migratory waterfowl.

Some species are highly threatened and they need potecting in order not to be trailed and killed by the hunters.

 

 

 

Located in Ha Noi. The Asia Record Organization recognized “The Pagoda with the Most Unique Architecture in Asia” after  being classified as a national historic site in 1962 and seven years of being recorded in the Vietnamese Guinness Book as the pagoda with the most unique architecture in the country. This once again affirmed the nearly-thousand year old pagoda’s historical and architectural values.

 

Tien Giang - Viet Nam Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 - 3:57 AM

Tien Giang located in South West with two seasons:rain and suny. So this is the place that all of the tropical fruits such as Trung Luong plum, Vinh Kimstar apple, Cai Be Guava, Tien Giang orange, Hoa Loc mango, banana, duran, rambutan, logan,...

Mui Ne - Hon Rom Monday, May 6th, 2013 - 1:40 AM

It is a a coastal resort town located in the Binh Thuan Province of southeastern Vietnam and it is close to Phan Thiet city. Mui Ne is considered a popular tourist center of Binh Thuan province and also in the national list of resorts in Vietnam.

Ba Be Lake and National Park Monday, February 4th, 2013 - 8:33 AM

Ba Be lake is located among striking limestone landscapes and it is known as the largest natural lake in Vietnam. It is currently the center section of an extensive national park. The park and the surrounding area is limestone region with lakes, waterfalls, caves and unusual rock formation abound. The beautiful lake is surrounded by evergreen forests where many ethnic minority communities located.

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