Vietnam Travel in Brief 23/11/2007
26/11/07 (GMT+7)
Thai food fest spices up Hanoi
A cultural charity event featuring Thai cuisine, folk art demonstrations, music and folk dancing at the American Club, 19-21 Hai Ba Trung Street Hanoi, will take place this Saturday.
The event will celebrate Loy Krathong, a traditional Thai festival held on the night of the full moon in the 12th month of the Thai lunar calendar, in which flowers or lotus-shaped receptacles are set adrift to honour the Goddess of Water.
Net proceeds from this event will be donated to the National Fund for Vietnamese Children.
Tickets are on sales at Royal Thai Embassy, at 04 823 5092/3 ext 140 and at the Melia Hotel, at 04 936 5226/7 as well as at the club.
Cruise ships to call on Quang Ninh
The cruise ships Princess Ocean and Morning Shine were scheduled to take some 700 Chinese tourists to HaLong between September and December. Quang Ninh Tourism Department said these were part of the Beihei-HaLong sea tour, the most popular tourist sea routes in the province.
The other sea tours linking Quang Ninh with Chinese provinces include the HaLong-Hainan route that has been temporarily suspended and the Hong Kong-Hainan-HaLong route.
Quang Ninh and the Beihei tourism authority from Guangxi Province said they were also promoting a new programme to link attractions in Quang Ninh with those in Ho Chi Minh City to offer Chinese tourists a wider choice.
City mulls pedestrian-only streets
Ho Chi Minh City authorities are considering banning motorcycles on several streets in District 1. The streets proposed include Dong Khoi, Nguyen Hue, Le Loi, Phan Boi Chau, Phan Chau Trinh, Nguyen An Ninh and Luu Van Lang. The streets would be divided into lanes.
To avoid traffic congestion, motorcycle prohibition will be enacted on weekends. In preparation for a pedestrian quarter downtown, another scheme will be introduced to forbid automobile use on the same streets.
(Source: Viet Nam News)
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