(VOV) - A traveler finds himself facing the pre-dawn streets of Hanoi after a long train ride south from Sapa. An experience to enjoy or not?

(VOV) - The Vietnamese Ao Dai has graced the world’s catwalks, acclaimed for its luxuriously elegant appearance as well as its softness and lightness.

(VOV) - With the fast approach of winter in town, most Hanoi lovers are seeking new places for snack food and their most iconic wintry dishes are nem chua ran (fried fermented pork), banh mi thit xien (grilled pork with toast), or banh chuoi (fried banana cake).

(VOV) -The way of making and drinking Lotus or Jasmine tea is the treasured custom of Vietnamese people. Every cup of natural flower-scented tea captures a fraction of Vietnam’s rich and vibrant culture.

(VOV) - Explaining the traffic in Vietnam is an unreasonable expectation if your audience has never experienced it. After all, how do you explain a skyscraper to a mole?

(VOV) - Despite having faced some initial difficulties since he first set foot in Vietnam, young Frenchman Stanislas Deffrennes now considers the S-shaped country an indispensable part of his life.

(VOV) - It’s no longer strange to see a Vietnamese man and a foreign woman walking hand in hand on the street. The obstacles their marriage normally encounters, however, are numerous.

(VOV) - In the eyes of Natalia Kraevskaia, a Russian woman who married a Vietnamese man, Hanoi is a beautiful, peaceful city that is worth her passionate devotion to the art gallery over the years.

(VOV) - Vietnam is well-known for its glorious thousand-year history of national construction and defence, and also for its attractive, friendly, and safe tourist sites.

(VOV) - Cyclos have become not only an inextricable part of Hanoi’s culture but also one of its “tourist attractions” for foreign visitors to the city.