Tet Trung Thu is one of the most important festival in Asian culture in general and in Vietnam in particular. It’s also called reunion festival or Children’s festival in Vietnam and combines many rituals, customs and…
The first thing a tourist might notice when setting the first steps in the city of Hanoi must be the traffic. Yes, it’s not a new topic but an open answer for foreigners visiting this…
Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, has its own charms in each season, but for people who live in or once visited this city, autumn is the best period of the year. And speaking of Hanoi’s…
Dong Ho painting, full name Đông Hồ folk woodcut painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province). With the consent of the Prime…
Every summer, in a corner of Hanoi, lotuses bloom covering a part of West lake with their bright pink. Being one of the biggest city in Vietnam, people would usually imagine of Hanoi with modern…
Phan Dinh Phung Street in Hanoi has been revived with beautiful mural paintings featuring the beauty of the capital city. Earlier, under a community art exchange project funded by the Korea Foundation, UN-Habitat, and the…
Hanoians of all ages head for West Lake at 5am every day to exercise. On Ve Ho Street, hundreds of people do various exercises in small groups. The grassy area of several hundred square meters…
There’s an old Vietnamese saying, “Hanoi has thirty-six streets and guilds – Jam Street, Sugar Street, Salt Street…”. Inside a modern and dynamic city, there appears an antique quarter, the Hanoi’s Old Quarter – the…
To welcome the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year (Tet holiday), 12 animal sculptures planted with ornamental shrubs and flowers are being put on display at Thong Nhat (Reunification) Park in Hanoi. Workers are busy creating…
Water puppet is a typical form of Vietnamese art, especially in Hanoi, which has existed for more than 1000 years. In many guide books in Vietnam, people said that “Not watching a performance of water…