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Red River Delta photo festival
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1,263 works by 219 photographers from nine provinces and cities in the Red River Delta participated in the 15th artistic photo festival of the Red River Delta.
These photos reflect the economic, cultural and social lives, as well as daily routines, of people in the Red River Delta. 141 works were selected for display at the exhibition.
The festival aims to praise the beauty of the homeland and people in the Red River Delta, promote the photographic movement in the region and create conditions for photographers to make public new works.
The organizing board selected 14 works to present awards.
Addressing the opening ceremony, deputy secretary of Hung Yen provincial Party Committee Doan The Cuong affirmed the role and importance of culture, literature and arts in social life. He also congratulated winning artists and hoped that they would have more artistic works to reflect the diversity of socio-economic and cultural life to arts lovers.
The festival will run until October 16th.
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Oct
16
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Russian tourists are interested in Coastal Khanh Hoa
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So far this year, the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has welcomed 383,000 tourists from overseas, a year on year increase of 27 percent, with the 50,000 Russian tourists making up the largest group from any one country.
According to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Khanh Hoa expects to receive 550,000 overseas arrivals this year, a rise of 10 percent over its set target.
The provincial People’s Committee held a meeting with local agencies on October 11 to discuss security measures in the tourism sector, especially for visitors from abroad.
As of October 25, the scheduled flights that bring visitors from the Far Eastern region of Russia to the central coastal region through Cam Ranh Airport in Khanh Hoa will increase from 7-9 flights a week to 21 to meet the increasing demand of Russian visitors during their winter holidays.
Since it was launched in October last year, the service has carried 60,000 Russian tourists to Vietnam’s central and southern regions, 60-70 percent of whom chose Nha Trang as their destination.
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Oct
16
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Take a visit of TGo Gang Raft Village
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If you have been lucky enough to visit Long Son Island Commune in Vung Tau City, you might not have noticed the beautiful sunrise on the newly-built Go Gang Bridge.
With our aim to witness the activities of a raft village in early morning, my friends and I took a car to drive from Vung Tau City to Go Gang Island in Long Son Commune at 4:30 a.m. Just 40 minutes later we arrived at Go Gang Bridge to admire the whole view of the raft village below and an endless horizon where the sky and the sea mingled into one.
There were not many people traveling on the bridge at that time so we freely jumped and lay on the bridge’s surface for photos and breathed in the fresh air from the sea which was mingled with fish and sea salt.
Just a moment passed and we all made a ‘wow’ as the sun rose from the horizon and dyed the sky dark orange. Our group consisted of five and ten eyes were engrossed with that miracle scene and we pushed our cameras’ buttons in unison. The sun and its changeable colors reflected on the water surface like a giant silk painting and some tiny floating houses bubbled on the water and fishing boats surfing on the water made for some lively patterns.
When the sun was rising above, we decided to come to the small path beneath the bridge to watch fishermen transferring fish from small boats to trucks to take them to the markets. After that, we went to a raft house not for seafood but to watch daily activities of people who live all-year round on the water surface.
After admiring sunrise scene, tourists are advised to pop along to Nha Lon (Great House), a place to worship the great men of Taoism, Confucianism, Ong Tran and his relatives of the Le Family on Long Son Island. The house was built on an area of two hectares and includes a temple, a place to celebrate festivals with a school, a market, and Ong Tran’s graveyard. Or you can climb up to a mountain on the locality to have a panoramic view of the whole of Vung Tau City. Tourists who find it difficult with directions can ask enthusiastic local people so they can obtain useful information about the history and culture of the location.
You may say that the sunrise scene and raft village is the same everywhere but I think it would be different if you do it on Go Gang Island in the early morning, not at the bustling atmosphere of an afternoon party eating seafood as we usually do every weekend.
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Women exhibition
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16/10/2012 08:30:10
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Cham culture festival
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16/10/2012 08:24:21
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The apperance of “Metamorphosis of Japan after the war: 1945-1964” exhibition
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16/10/2012 08:15:58
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Vietnamese photographer gets hi gh price at FiAP
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16/10/2012 08:13:56
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Hue royal music at Korean cultural festival
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15/10/2012 08:56:23
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A tourism services seminar will be held
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15/10/2012 08:53:31
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Get a view of Shan Tuyet tea in Phin Ho
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15/10/2012 08:50:51
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Can Tho city organized Segne Dolta festival
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15/10/2012 08:49:33
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Beautiful Ninh Binh province with mountains
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15/10/2012 08:46:37
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