Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai Hoi An’s cooking academy shows how to cook some Hue specialties such as goi tien vua (dragon fruit leaf salad), nem lui (Hue-style lemongrass skewers), goi Cung dinh (Imperial salad), banh xeo (Vietnamese crepes) and bun bo Hue (Hue-style beef noodle soup) in the Festival Hue 2018.

Krossing Over Arts Festival (KOAF) in its second edition, with an exciting week-long program, features a series of interdisciplinary and collaborative performances along with a plethora of artist talks, dance workshops, and international film screenings from April 16 to 22, 2018 at nine different locations around HCMC.

From the vast and open sweep of the Mongolian steppe, hardy nomadic people have developed a cuisine unique in the world, and this will form the center-piece of Windsor Plaza Hotel’s Mongolian Culinary Fair.

More Asian brands, particularly those from Southeast Asia, have been franchised to the Vietnamese market, with seven foreign franchises licensed in Vietnam this year.

West Lake Water Park in Hanoi will open to visitors on April 21 to serve the high leisure demand in summer.

Those wishing to experience culture and lifestyles as natives of Ho Chi Minh City should check out the following places.

Vietnamese photographer Tran Tuan Viet defeated 4,800 other rivals to claim the first prize in the travel category of an annual photo contest organized by the US-based Smithsonian magazine.

Pot Au Pho, a photo exhibition by Vietnamese artist Nguyen Da Quyen and Frenchman Julien Brun, will be opened at 10 a.m. on April 7 at Toong co-working space in District 3, HCMC.

Tourists will be spoiled for choice with a wide selection of cultural and tourism events in the country’s popular destinations this April. Following are a couple of festivals worth being included in summer travel plans.

A 2-km railway connecting Sa Pa Town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai and the cable car station to Mount Fansipan was put into service late last week, becoming the country’s longest mountain railway.