The mouth of Pygmy Cave. Photo: dangcongsan.vn Quang Binh allowed Jungle Boss Co. Ltd to provide the three-day and two-night tours in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Bo Trach district, from January 2018. Each tour serves a maximum of 14 tourists at a cost of nearly 10 million VND (over 440 USD) per person. On the first day, tourists depart at Jungle Boss’s headquarters and get off cars at the 24th kilometer of Road 20 Quyet Thang, where they will trek for about five hours to reach Ho Cave. They can also swim for 300 meters in the cave if they want and then stay here on the first night. Over Cave is the next destination on the second day of the trip. The cave is over 90m high and 3.2km long and boasts impressive stalactites and stalagmites. Notably, there are a number of terraced lakes with sapphire color. Leaving Over Cave, tourists will walk for one hour to reach Pygmy, which is about 100m high and wide and 845m long. At the mouth of this cave, they can see a system of ropes and bamboo tied together by locals to harvest salangane nests and bee honey in the past. The rope and bamboo system is tens of meters high on the cave wall. Pygmy is also the stop on the second night of the tour. Both Pygmy and Over were discovered by local residents in 1997 before experts from the British Cave Research Association explored and publicized them. On… [Read full story]
With many its many interesting sights and attractions, the Dong Xuan market has increasingly become a tourist site for both domestic and foreign visitors. One of the biggest shopping centres in Hanoi, the market has attracted a large number of customers and visitors. According to the Dong Xuan Travel, an agent of the Dong Xuan Joint-Stock Company, every month, the market receives thousands of foreign visitors from many countries including Japan, France, China, Thailand, the UK and many others. So far, the Dong Xuan Joint-Stock Company has launched tours to explore the market, providing business opportunities to businessmen in the…... [read more]
The first Vietnam tourism tennis tournament, V-Tour Open 2011, will take place between November 18th and 27th with the Investment and Industrial Development Corporation (Becamex IDC) as the main sponsor for, said the organiser, Vietnam Tennis Federation, in a press conference on November 10th. Accordingly, the tournament's qualifying round will take place in Hanoi on November 19th and 20th, in Da Nang City on November 18th and 19th, and in Binh Duong City on November 19th and 20th and the final round will take place in Binh Duong Province on November 26th and 27th. The first V-Tour Open 2011 creates…... [read more]
The entrance to Pygmy Cave is about 845 meters in length and 100 meters by 100 meters in height and width. This entrance is also a camping site where visitors can sleep during the tour Drinkable water trickles down from the cave roof. Sunlight penetrates the cave which helps ferns grow. The Cave Pygmy is considered the fourth largest cave in the world ranked by the British Cave Research Association. At the entrance of the cave, tourists can see ropes and ladders that locals used to climb to collect bird nests and honey. Local people discovered Pygmy Cave in 1997…... [read more]
Quang Binh allowed Jungle Boss Co. Ltd to provide the three-day and two-night tours in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Bo Trach district, from January 2018. Each tour serves a maximum of 14 tourists at a cost of nearly VND10 million (over US$440) per person.On the first day, tourists depart at Jungle Boss’s headquarters and get off cars at the 24th kilometer of Road 20 Quyet Thang, where they will trek for about five hours to reach Ho Cave. They can also swim for 300 metres in the cave if they want and then stay here on the first night.Over…... [read more]
MICE tours (which combine travelling with attending meetings, conferences or events/exhibitions) are booming in the country, and have emerged as a lucrative business for the tourism sector. According to travel companies specialising in MICE, the number of MICE tourists in the first half of this year is increased by an estimated 30 percent year-on-year, with Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and major tourist centres such as Nha Trang and Ha Long the most popular destinations. US tripled over the same period last year, with at least three small MICE tourist groups each month. Vietnam are also increasing. Vietnam currently has…... [read more]
