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Vietnam Open Tour News & EventsTUESDAY 27 OCTOBER, 2009 |
 Enjoy hot mineral mud-bathing in Phan Thiet Instead of going to the distant Nha Trang City to enjoy mud-bathing, tourists who travel the tourist routes through the coastal provinces in the South Central region now have another choice to try the service, Phan Thiet City.
Tourists enjoy mud-bathing at the Mui Ne Mineral Hot Mud Center in the coastal city of Phan Thiet. Opened last year on an area of 4.5 hectares, the center offers warm mineral water soaking, warm mineral water bathing under a man-made water fall, hot mineral mud-bathing and many other services. The center’s owner, Viet Tin Joint-Stock Company, is using a hot mineral water spring, around 800 meters from the center, and a mud mine in Tuy Phong District of the province. After changing into clothes provided by the center, tourists can enjoy the service in tubs in green banana gardens. There are about 17 tubs for mud-bathing, each of them big enough for three or four people. Private tubs are available on request. The mud here is not as thick as the mud in Nha Trang, but the Mui Ne Hot Mineral Mud Center has the advantage of green and well-aired spaces. All the mud tubs are placed apart by bananas. It’s enough privacy for visitors to enjoy bathing. After trying the mud-bathing service, tourists will come to the warm mineral soaking service area and then to the hydropathy area before going to the man-made warm mineral water fall to enjoy a water massage. One special service is a swimming pool with around 1,000 cubic meters of warm mineral water and smaller massage pools. There is a nice bar at the center of the swimming pool. There are no accommodations here but the owner said that around 80 four-star and 100 five-star standard rooms as well as a spa and luxury services would open soon. Hot mineral mud-bathing is VND95,000 per person for a tub of four people, VND200,000 per person for a tub of only one and VND550,000 per person for a special tub for two. Contact the center at 133A Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, Ham Tien, Phan Thiet City, tel: 062 374 3482 or 062 374 3481. VietNamNet/SGT
Cable-car system to serve visitors to Hue national park
Mount Bach Ma in the central province of Thue Thien-Hue (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Currently, the 20-kilometer path up the mountain is narrow, treacherous and vulnerable to landslides. Upon completion, the cable cars will serve tourists at Bach Ma National Park in the province’s Phu Loc District, around 700 km south of Hanoi and 1,000 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. The national park is the heart of a vast green forest running from the East Sea to the border with Laos, endowed with 2,147 flora and 1,493 fauna species, of which 27 plant varieties and 66 animals are listed in Vietnam’s Red Book of endangered species. VietNamNet/SGGP Vietnam’s culinary: diversity and appetite Vietnam, a country of humid tropical heat and monsoons, has a culinary culture that combines countless ingredients and spices to satisfy the tendency of Vietnamese people to eat many vegetables and soups and pork, beef, chicken and fish. Vietnamese food prioritizes appetite over nutrition and does not incline to sophisticated features like Chinese food or aesthetic features like Japanese food.
Tourists take Vietnamese food at the Ben Thanh Market in HCMC's District 1.
Cha gio (spring roll) has been a favorite of international tourists in many hotels and restaurants since it is made from mince, vegetables, vermicelli, cassava, job’s ear, field mushrooms, onions, eggs and spices. All of these ingredients are rolled into a griddle cake and then fried in oil over a low flame. The special tip for perfect spring rolls is to turn them often to make them crispy. Not only the Japanese but other foreigners fall in love with cha gio because of its amber, its crispiness melted in mouth. Many people, especially Japanese girls found cha gio a diet food thanks to some vegetables like salad containing vitamin attached to the food. Canh chua (sour mullet fish soup) was born since the day people from the North and the Central came to the South to set up their businesses. It is a very popular dish in the South. A good sour mullet fish soup will be steamed from pig bones then be purified, then steamed again. Next, tamarind to make the soup sour and fish are put into the soup. When the fish is done, people add pineapple, mint, okra, fish sauce, sugar, tomatoes, coriander, bean sprouts and chili. Canh chua will be perfect if we eat it together with fish sauce. Fish is taken out of the soup to put into a dish of fish sauce to eat together with hot rice or noodle. Fish in canh chua has low cholesterol so it is easy to digest while the omega-3 in fish is good for getting old prevention. Vegetables like tomatoes, pineapple, bean sprouts, mint etc is good for antipyretic process, detoxication. International and local tourists who have tasted Vietnamese food may share experiences and vote for your favorite food in the program called ‘Exciting HCMC’ organized by the city’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism at www.hcmc100e.info. Joining in this program, apart from food, you will be asked to vote for hotels, restaurants, roadside hawker stalls, cafes, shops and markets, points of interest (sightseeing) and your overall impression of HCMC. VietNamNet/SGT Mining to be banned at tourism and historic sites The central province of Nghe An has begun to determine 148 tourist attractions and historic places around which mining will be forbidden.
"They will also make a geographical list of 985 other places of interest," said Cao Duc Vinh, director of Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism. The move by the provincial Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism was to prevent the negative impacts of mining, Vinh said. Already, rampant illegal mining activities in areas near Truong Bon historical site in Do Luong District had caused major earth erosion, he said. Efforts to stop these activities would help preserve the areas. Compared to other provinces, Nghe An had a large reserve of natural resources scattered throughout, Vinh said. At the same time, it had more than 1,000 historical and cultural sites, 87 of which had national ranking. "If there was no mechanism to control mining, it would threaten or destroy the sites," Vinh said. From now on, applications for mining activities in permitted areas did not necessarily require registration with the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism. However, the department and local authorities had been instructed to regularly inspect and supervise mining activities that may affect cultural, sport and travel areas. VietNamNet/VNS Phu Quoc Island to build casino 100-hectare casino is planned for pristine Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province People’s Committee chairman Bui Ngoc Suong told a conference on Thursday.
More than ten investors are bidding for the project, which is part of the province’s plan to boost tourism facilities on the southern island off the coast of the Mekong Delta, Suong said at the real estate conference held by the Vietnam Tourism Property Association in Ho Chi Minh City. While Suong didn’t give more details about the project, Nguyen Ngoc My, president of Vabis Group, which specializes in entertainment services and golf, said specific regulations and plans were needed in order to attract investors to the casino and tourism-complex sector, which was fairly new in Vietnam in general, and altogether foreign to Phu Quoc. Many local tourists often leave Vietnam to visit casinos in other Southeast Asian countries region, causing serious revenue losses here, My said. With its 150 kilometers of coast, Phu Quoc aims to become a high class resort island with the capacity to accommodate three million annual tourists by 2020, according to a plan approved by the government last year. VietNamNet/Thanh Nien
Discovering an eco tourist park in Lai Thieu For the past years, Lai Thieu has been well-known for its diversified fruit trees and has been considered the lungs of Binh Duong province. Nowadays, the effect of industrial development is influencing Lai Thieu’s garden of fruit trees but this land is still a green paradise for ideal relaxation.
It would be a mistake if we miss the Din Ky Cau Ngang eco tourist park which lies peacefully and breezily along a branch of the Saigon River. Coming here, tourists find themselves back in time to the ancient land of the South. The Din Ky Cau Ngang eco tourist park is the second branch of Din Ky in Binh Duong province after the Din Ky Lai Thieu eco tourist park. The park belongs to the community of Lai Thieu’s fruit-trees and is about 23 kilometers from HCMC and about six kilometers from Thu Dau Mot Town. Departing from HCMC and heading to Go Vap district, it takes 20 minutes to reach Lai Thieu Market. After another two kilometers, tourists come to the crossroad of Cau Ngang and turn left onto a red-soil road. On this road, people have the feeling of being on a village road with the green shady trees standing in two lines on both sides. Going about 100 meters, tourists find a gate covered by double tiles and that’s the first sight of the tourist park. Passing through the gate, tourists enter a narrow path and see a sinuous foot bridge hidden under many lines of coconut trees. Looming far away is a fishing canoe anchored sluggishly and surrounded by thick water hyacinths. This is a great spot to enjoy the breeze blowing off the river. Ahead is a small irrigation canal spanned by a bridge. Tourists stop there to contemplate the scene of many people fishing in silence or take an interesting opportunity to fish for some big fishes for their next meal. Next to the canal for fishing is the canal that looks a lot like a post-harvested field full of mud. People can jump in and catch fish the way the ancient people in the South used to do. Tourists can taste their own fish after the park’s kitchen or a floating restaurant on the river cooks them. The floating restaurant is a special feature of the tourist park because it is also a craft village. Tourists can see the artisans making griddle cakes, coconut candies and wine on this restaurant. Moreover, there is a boat for tourists to watch the daily activities on the river. This boat makes two trips per day, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Back at the wharf, tourists can ask the park to put on a cock-fight or arrange horse riding on village roads. The short distance between HCMC and Din Ky Cau Ngang usually makes it a day trip but to serve the demand of tourists, the park is offering rooms both on land and on the river. There is a boat restaurant with six cozy and well-equipped wooden rooms. Spending a night on this floating hotel must be an unforgettable memory. To diversify its services, the park also offers many short stay trips such as HCMC-Binh Duong province, HCMC-Binh Duong province-Long Hai province or HCMC-Binh Duong province-Giang Dien Waterfall. All of these tours are by car and boat. To get to the Din Ky Cau Ngang eco tourist park, tourists can take a bus from the Ben Thanh bus station to the Mien Dong bus station and from there to Binh Duong province. At the crossroad of Cau Ngang, tourists should ask the driver to stop and then walk to the park. Another way is to take a boat from Bach Dang Port. The Din Ky Cau Ngang eco tourist park is located in Binh Nham commune, Thuan An district, Binh Duong province. For further information, call 0650 372 3050. The tourist park is offering a discount of 33% for all services to those who rent a hotel room. VietNamNet/SGT News for Wednesday 21 October, 2009
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