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Highlights: Hanoi – Halong Bay – Danang – Hoian – Hue – Saigon – Cuchi – Mytho – Siem Reap
Duration: 13 days/ 12 nights
Trip star: Hanoi
Trip end: Siem Reap
Tour type: Historical & Cultural Tours

Vietnam’s alluring charms are proving a big magnet for foreign travelers.

Australia’s Expedia Australia Press Centre, a comprehensive source of travel-related news and reports, said in its Expedia HiFX Foreign Exchange Index released last week that Asia was the best value-for-money region in the world. Meanwhile, Vietnam is “the best-value destination for Aussie travelers, with the Australian dollar appreciating by over 23 per cent against the Vietnamese dong in the past 12 months.”

From the beginning of the 19th century and on, indian merchants from Bombay, Karachi and Calcutta, settled down in the north and south of Vietnam. Around 1930 there were a thousand of them in Indochina. They formed a large group of well-to-do businessmen, specialized in the sale of fabrics and the change of money. They were to be found in the large markets, buying and selling cotton, silk, and jewelry. Their stores were located in the streets of all the major cities. In Hanoi they lived grouped around “Rue De la Soie” Silk Street where they bought silk from Chinese merchants and shipped this to India and Singapore. This group was rich and big enough to build mosques. English subjects from South India and Bombay built the mosque Al Nuhr in Hanoi around 1900 along with other mosques in the South. Today the mosque is frequented by a varied group of Muslims, most of them expatriates connected to embassies from Malaysia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia India, Algeria, Yemen, Iraq, Vietnam, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Vietnam has officially become a competitive aviation market after more licensed airlines have taken off and declared competition with the national flag air carrier Vietnam Airlines.

On April 8, Air Mekong signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT). Under the agreement, VNPT will sell air tickets for Air Mekong at its 18,000 post offices nationwide. In return, Air Mekong will carry postal parcels for VNPT.

Muslim & Hala Restaurants in Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City

1. BOMBAY Restaurant

Dong Du Street, near the Mosque 66 Dong Du
Phone: +848 38233594

Vietnam and the Principality of Monaco should boost cooperation in agriculture, infrastructure, finance and banking, on the back of their growing economic ties, Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan said.

She made the remarks during her reception for the Chairman of the MimRan Group of Monaco, Nachson MimRan, in Hanoi on April 9, citing the two-way trade value of US$1 billion between Vietnam and Monaco.

Fifty paintings by celebrated musician Trinh Cong Son are on display online, giving his fans all over the world the rare chance of discovering the world, people and love through their icon's paintings instead of music.

The highlights among the works on http://esoft.tuoitre.vn/Template/Trien-lam-anh include Son's portrait sketches.

The famous French trademark, Chanel made its official debut in the Rex Hotel in HCM City on April 7 after operating in Vietnam for nearly three months.

The Obama administration is interested in boosting cooperation with Vietnam, especially in education, said US Under-Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sanchez.
The US believes it will make positive contributions to the development of Vietnam’s education, he said at a press briefing in Hanoi on April 7.

He informed that this was the first time that the US Department of Commerce led a mission representing 56 universities, colleges and English-language institutes to a number of countries and Vietnam was the mission’s second stop.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has called on Vietnam to scrutinise certain aircrafts, which were manufactured by the U.S.

For all Boeing 737-300, 737-400 and 737-500, inspection is compulsory, the FAA said.