Jan
18th

The Drum Cave – Ha Long Bay

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The massive array of candles and food provided by Bhaya Cruises in The Drum Cave in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

About 140 members of NewHanoian.com attended.

Duration : 0:2:36

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Jan
3rd

Footprint Vietnam Travel – PC / Interview with Mr Son, Dang Xuan – Part 4 of 4

Fourth and final part (4 of 4) of an interesting interview / press conference with Mr Son, Dang Xuan the Product Manager of Footprint Vietnam Travel. Taken on 23 October 2009 at Suntec Singapore during the ITB Asia 2009, the timing was originally set for a press conference, but a brief presentation and a boardroom set up, allowed for a good range of questions and answers about travel in Vietnam. Tourism and its development in Vietnam was discussed, as were topics on more general consumer travel. Cycling in Vietnam became a main sub topic, and recommendations given on whether to use road bikes or mountain bikes, whether to travel to Vietnam with your own bicylce, support vehichles, and if the company can take care of it/them while you move around the country. Other topics were more general, and range from moving around Vietnam, to where to go and what to do. An interesting discussion, which for travellers who have not been to this amazingly beautiful country, should help with just a little inisght into what to expect, and perhaps give a few ideas of where to go.

Vietnam is outstandingly beautiful, and offers great golf, stunning scenerey, mountains, spectacular beaches, impressively beautiful cities like Hanoi, and areas like Halong Bay which are quite simply breathtaking. If you have not yet been, make it a priority before the visitor arrival numbers grow too much!

There are four parts (around 10 minutes each) to the Footprint Vietnam Travel Press Conference / Interview.

There is more on Vietnam at: http://www.asiatraveltips.com/Vietnam.shtml

Duration : 0:2:6

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Dec
18th

Footprint Vietnam Travel – PC / Interview with Mr Son, Dang Xuan – Part 1 of 4

Part 1 of 4 of an interesting interview / press conference with Mr Son, Dang Xuan the Product Manager of Footprint Vietnam Travel. Taken on 23 October 2009 at Suntec Singapore during the ITB Asia 2009, the timing was originally set for a press conference, but a brief presentation and a boardroom set up, allowed for a good range of questions and answers about travel in Vietnam. Tourism and its development in Vietnam was discussed, as were topics on more general consumer travel. Cycling in Vietnam became a main sub topic, and recommendations given on whether to use road bikes or mountain bikes, whether to travel to Vietnam with your own bicylce, support vehichles, and if the company can take care of it/them while you move around the country. Other topics were more general, and range from moving around Vietnam, to where to go and what to do. An interesting discussion, which for travellers who have not been to this amazingly beautiful country, should help with just a little inisght into what to expect, and perhaps give a few ideas of where to go.

Vietnam is outstandingly beautiful, and offers great golf, stunning scenerey, mountains, spectacular beaches, impressively beautiful cities like Hanoi, and areas like Halong Bay which are quite simply breathtaking. If you have not yet been, make it a priority before the visitor arrival numbers grow too much!

There are three parts (around 10 minutes each) to the Footprint Vietnam Travel Press Conference / Interview.

There is more on Vietnam at: http://www.asiatraveltips.com/Vietnam.shtml

Duration : 0:10:17

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Sep
2nd

Tiana Alexandra’s “Dream Journey to Viet Nam” with James Gandolfini & Marcia Gay Harden

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7mns A benefit Celebration of Christopher Hampton’s 50 published plays & screenplays at home of Philip Glass in NYC with Global Insider Filmmaker Actress Tiana Alexandra (Tiana Karate Princess) to win a trip to Hanoi Hoi An Ho Chi Minh City

Duration : 0:8:29

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Aug
31st

Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) an impressive Asian city

Saigon – HoChiMinh City is one of the most beautiful and modern cities in South East Asia ! Check it out through this video !

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Aug
20th

Monkey Island, Nha Trang -Vietnam

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Just something I put together to highlight my trip to the Monkey Island, in Nha Trang Vietnam. It is bascily a tourist attraction, where hundreds of monkeys can roam around freely, and for some reason there is also a go cart track on the island (because monkey also drive gocart?). But yeah it was a beautiyful island, and it was really cool to be with the monkey upclose.

Duration : 0:6:43

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Aug
20th

The Quiet Streets of Hoi An, Vietnam

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Sandy and I strolling down one of Hoi An’s historic streets, just west of the Japanese bridge.

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Aug
20th

bigtoe (vietnam),maximum (korea) and Sebastien,Raphael “Battle Squad”

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maximum crew from korea
Sebastien “Tiany” Ramirez from france
Raphael “Raph” Hillebrand from berlin
bigtoe crew from viet nam

this is after the event ” korean-vietnamese,16 years friendship”

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Aug
1st

Hội An Việt Nam

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Jul
29th

Vietnamese Traditional Music 1

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Center for Research and Development of National Music. Hanoi, Vietnam
Director – Mai Tuyet Hoa

Traditional Vietnamese music is highly diverse and syncretistic, combining native and foreign influences. Throughout its history, Vietnam has been most heavily impacted by the Chinese musical tradition, as an integral part, along with Korea, Mongolia and Japan.[1] The ancient Indochinese kingdom of Champa also had a very significant historical effect upon this music, because the Vietnamese court found it intriguing.
Nhã nhạc is the most popular form of imperial court music, specifically referring to the court music played from the Trần Dynasty to the very last Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam, being synthesized and most highly developed by the Nguyễn emperors. It is based on earlier Vietnamese imperial court music, its primary influences coming from Ming Dynasty’s imperial court and later the music of Champa. Along with nhã nhạc, the imperial court of Vietnam in the 19th century also had many royal dances which still exist to this day. The theme of most of these dances is to wish the kings longevity and the country wealth.

video by Antoni Ansarov

Duration : 0:3:55

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