|
Many low-cost retail petrol stands have recently been popping up on the streets of Nha Trang. These “businesses” sell their products at VND20,000 (USD0.95) per litre. Their competition are local petrol stations, who sell Ron 92 petrol at VND21,210 and Ron 95 at VND21,720 per litre. Petrol retail stand on Le Hong Phong Street Le [...]
Visitors to the resort town of Nha Trang in January for the Lunar New Year Festival ( Tet ) will have the opportunity to enjoy a view of the bay from a balloon floating 150 meters high. The balloon, 22 meters in diameter, will be held by cable wire in an area of 3,000 square [...]
A Liberian ship, the Main Trader, rescued all 15 fishermen aboard a Vietnamese sunken vessel on January 8. An unidentified ship collided with the Vietnamese vessel on January 2 while it was fishing at sea, according to Nguyen Van Hieu, captain of the unlucky ship who survived the incident. Hieu said he was rescued and [...]
It was late at night as Nga, my girlfriend, and I jumped on the bus at Gia Dinh Park and embarked on an adventure to Nha Trang. By the time we departed from the city with a packed bus we were only nine hours from our destination, nine hours… how did I get talked into [...]
Some people go on holiday to put their feet up and do absolutely nothing. But on a trip to Khanh Hoa Province with Nha Trang Tourist I admit I was absolutely shattered as I’ve never done so much in such a short space of time in my life. This company certainly knows how to fit [...]
I have to admit I’m not the most adventurous person in the world but on a recent trip to Nha Trang my eyes were opened to the buzz of watersports. I was on a boat trip as part of a tour package from Saigon when we stopped off at a speedboat center. Around 50 of us [...]
On a recent trip to Nha Trang, our trip organizer told the group we were going to a nice spa and bathe in a product which will see our skin glow with health and vitality. We weren’t told that our destination was a mud house. We should have guessed as he smiled when he said [...]
The Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa was directed Tuesday to assess a new treatment methodology to treat the hand-foot-mouth disease by the Ministry of Health. Dr. Khai (standing, in white shirt) and Vo Dai, deputy chairman of Ninh Thuan People’s Committee examine a child recovering from HFMD [...]
Yvette Irvine heard about Vietnamese hand-embroidery before coming to this land, but like the rest of her party she only knew embroidering with a machine. She couldn’t imagine how Vietnamese women manually created those exquisite silk pictures that had gained an international reputation. The 45-year-old Yvette got an inkling of how it was done when [...]
Vinpearl Resort Nha Trang recently was voted the Vietnam’s Leading Resort by the World Travel Awards (WTA,) the comprehensive voter-determined awards in the global travel and tourism industry. This is the fourth time Vinpearl has received the international program’s accolade. Previously, the WTA listed Vinpearl as Vietnam’s Leading Spa Resort – in 2004 and 2008. [...]