Vietnam Military History Museum
Travel to Vietnam December 14th, 2009
Vietnam Military History Museum in Ha Noi during the holiday new year (Tet holidays) 8526 visited by tourists, including 8199 foreign tourists.
Especially on the fourth day of “Year of Goat,” the museum was visited by 3600 people. Most of them come from China, Japan, USA and the UK.
Compared with the same period last year, the number of tourists rose 10 percent.
While the number of tourists who arrived in Ha Noi from January 31 until February 5 to reach almost 13,000 people an increase of 15 percent from year to year. This figure does not include tourists who entered Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City and then went to Ha Noi.
Cultural Ha Noi Temple (Van Mieu) himself visited by 30,000 people in the Tet holiday. Most of them come from China and Western Europe. Vietnamese people in foreign countries who are also much visited.
Although the number of visitors the museum usually falls during the New Year, this year the museum had received 6500 foreign tourists during the first eight days of the new year, double the traffic off the new year ago.
Cu Chi Tunnel Vietnam
Travel to Vietnam December 14th, 2009
Cu Chi Tunnel is a large network of tunnels connecting underground in Cu Chi district, Vietnam.
At first there was no direct order to build this Tunnel, but Tunnel arise as a war tactic response to attacks carried out against the French army and later the USA.
In 1948 Tunnel built so that they can avoid the air and ground attack French troops.
Each village Tunnel build their own routes and gradually these routes successfully connected to each other and reinforced.
Tunnel is also used by the army NFL “National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) to confront the American soldiers in the vietnam war.
In 1965 there were already Tunnel long connected with more than 200 Km and it became more developed, the route becomes more complex, so that the Tunnel is also equipped with various facilities such as bedrooms, kitchens, where care / hospital.
Equipment many obtained from the spoils of war are improvised, such as electricity generated from a stolen motorcycle engines.
Medical field are also many experienced improvisation, from the wreckage transformed into surgical instruments, so the doctor can perform blood transfusions.
Water and food became scarce, not rare these fighters have to stay for days in the Tunnel to avoid the bombing that made the American soldier.
Besides scorpions, ants, spiders, mosquitoes, malaria is also added hard life in Tunnel.
The presence of American Tunnel and finally kissed them carried out operations to destroy the Tunnel by sending aircraft B52 and dropped as much as 30 tons of bombs in the Cu Chi area.
Ground troops were also sent to find and destroy the Tunnel.
Yet America can never destroy the power and greatness Tunnel.
Vietnam War frustrating American troops, the number of casualties and material losses in 1975 caused the U.S. withdraw its troops.
Tunnel now been converted enable as attractions for tourists.
Vietnam is the safest Travel Destination
Travel to Vietnam December 13th, 2009
The second largest insurance company in the world from England, Aon, set six countries and regions, including Vietnam, as the safest destination for tourists.
Vietnam has long been recognized as a heroic ground for two fierce wars, but also included in several places in the world’s safest, according to Aon.
Claire Boobbyer, tourism author to Footprint Travel Guide, shows his love in particular to Vietnam.
He said the Vietnamese people friendly, the air in rural areas cool, delicious food while many parts of the country are still left wild and abandoned.
Previously, Conde Nast Traveler magazine has been providing the entire edition to Vietnam under the title Good Afternoon Vietnam.
Vietnam is not only a meeting point several cities with characteristics of each in the north and south, but also a place to appreciate the past and the future, the magazine said.
In March 2005 alone, the number of international tourists coming to Vietnam reached 300,000 people. In the first three months of 2005, Vietnam tourism sector has received 900,000 foreign tourists, up 20% from the same period
Delta Mekong River
Travel to Vietnam December 13th, 2009
One of the other tourist attractions we visited was the Mekong River Delta, located about 70 km from Ho Chi Minh City, about two hour by bus. I really do not imagine we’ll be taken to a muddy creek, much like in the area Ciliwung Condet, East Jakarta, and then brought up the boat. It turned out that our boat into the Mekong River are large, the width from edge to edge of about 3 km.
In the Mekong Delta there are four major islands. We went to one of the Unicorn Island, covering an area approximately 10 km square.
Not much of what we see in there, only the bee farm and agricultural products. We were sitting in saung saung-long, enjoying hot tea, fruits, while entertained three parents who play traditional instruments like fiddle, guitar and drums. Then the children are singing. Not extraordinary, but it was the kindness and sincerity in receiving tourists, and their spirit.
From the place we were taken down klengkeng gardens led to a small canal three meters wide, which divides the island. There was waiting canoes with the women as pendayungnya. Each boat contained only three passengers and two rowers. Our Be it far down the canal about two miles, till he came back to the Mekong Delta where our ship was waiting. The scene here is not extraordinary, but can describe some people’s lives there.
Seeing the beauty Veitnam, especially Ho Chi Minh city, spooky shadows of this country were soon erased from the mind. Ho Chi Minh City even more beautiful and greater than Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and even more advanced than Rangoon in Myanmar.
