If you come to Hanoi, our capital, how do you spend the time to discover?
Actually, you could visit all places and taste all kind of unique foods in Hanoi, so I would like to introduce some specific ones then you could explore and understand about our city, our culture by shortest way.
Almost people know Hanoi as a traditional city with maintaining ancient places or local people’s lifestyle.
Let’s discover Hanoi with me one day.
Continue reading “Don’t waste one day in Hanoi”
When people talk about Hanoi in autumn, surely they will remember Com which is a special food in this city.
Continue reading “Com, young sticky rice in Hanoi”There are a lot of ancient handmade village in our country, in which we have Vanphuc silk village where is the famous silk village of Hanoi to contemplate the genuine traditional silk-making industry.
We decided to discover Ninh Binh promptly, and that place welcomed us by a peaceful afternoon.
Traveling always expands our horizons.
Ninh Binh is about 90 km away from Hanoi, it is not too far, and easy transportation, where has forests, a diverse system of fauna and flora, The topography encompasses plains and the mountains of Vietnam northwest mountain range, and the river goes through mountains to create some amazing caves.
Continue reading “Ninh Binh – where mountain and river touch each other”Hai Phong is a famous city with phoenix flowers along 2 sides on almost streets, and especially, that place has a lot of scrumptious foods. Also due to loving foods, I booked a bus to visit Haiphong city for 2 days with a long list of street foods. That’s awesome, I loved it.
And, now I would like to share some famous foods of phoenix city and hope you could come and enjoy them.
“That’s awesome” I shouted loudly when I set the foot on this place where welcome me by sunny and windy with the romantic song of waves.
Continue reading “Coto – listening to the songs of sea”From childhood , we have known by heart the folk song and the lotus flowers are alike to Vietnamese people’s symbol.
” Trong đầm gì đẹp bằng sen,
Lá xanh bông trắng lại chen nhị vàng,
Nhị vàng bông trắng lá xanh,
Gần bùn mà chẳng hôi tanh mùi bùn”
In English, we can temporarily translate as below
In the pond, the lotus flower is beautiful
Green leaves, white flowers, yellow stamens
Yellow stamens, white flowers, green leaves
Near mud but it does not stink like mud.
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Continue reading “Lotus – Vietnam’s national flowers”Perhaps, almost people only know Hanoi where is different to other cities by 4 seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. However, as for local people, the loving point of Hanoi is twelve flowers season according to 12 months in a year. For more than 20 years I have been living there, it seems as my hometown and also it is very closed to me with romantic beauty.
Let’s discover which flower in each month.
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